Title |
Twelfth night [videorecording] |
Publisher/Date |
[Australia] : Time Life : Shock Entertainment (distributor), [2011], c1968. |
Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Series |
The Shakespeare collection |
Contents note |
"SHK 01 0" |
Based on the play by William Shakespeare. |
A made-for-TV movie originally broadcast by ITV in 1968. |
Creation Note |
Producer, Cecil Clarke ; director, John Sichel. |
Performer note |
Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright. |
Summary Note |
Alec Guinness (Bridge on the River Kwai), Ralph Richardson (Doctor Zhivago), Tommy Steele (Half a Sixpence) and renowned Shakespearean actress Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of lives, loves and close relationships. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick, puns and double, triple and quadruple entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over three hundred years. |
Target audience note |
Classification : G. |
Language note |
In English. |
Subject - Name |
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Twelfth night -- Adaptations |
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations |
Subject |
-- Film and video adaptations. |
Added Author |
Sichel, John |
Clarke, Cecil |
Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000 |
Steele, Tommy. |
Plowright, Joan |
Richardson, Ralph |
Corporate Author |
ITC Entertainment |
Shelf Location |
DVD 822.33 TWEL |