Macbeth (1954)

Directed by

George Schaefer

Genre

tv movie, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a live television adaptation of Shakespeare's play about a Scottish nobleman who is driven by ambition and prophecy to murder his king and seize the throne. The story follows him and his wife as they descend into guilt and paranoia.

theatricaldramaticintensesomberformalrestrainedatmosphericclassical

What happens

Macbeth is a live television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play presented as the November 28, 1954 episode of the American anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame. Directed by George Schaefer, and starring Maurice Evans and Dame Judith Anderson, the production was telecast in color, but has only been preserved on black-and-white kinescope. In 1960, Evans and Anderson starred in a filmed made-for-television production of the play, also directed by Schaefer for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, but with an entirely different supporting cast. That production was filmed in color on location in Scotland, and was released theatrically in Europe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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