Romeo and Juliet
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 14, 2007
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Norma Shearer & Leslie Howard | |
Performer: | John Barrymore, Andy Devine, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Denny, Ralph Forbes, Edna May Oliver & C. Aubrey Smith | |
Directed by | George Cukor | |
Edited by | Margaret Booth | |
Screenwriting by | Talbot Jennings | |
Original story by | William Shakespeare | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
Produced by | Irving Thalberg | |
Director of Photography: | William H. Daniels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Dated, dated, dated...and it has been done better since.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: C+ --
The film has some merits, though Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard were simply too old to play Shakespeare's juvenile lovers.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
It's a beautiful show and a beautiful story; so dramatic and so overwhelmingly right in every detail that it will carry you right back into the Renaissance.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
The stars are too old, but it's a handsome film with a great John Barrymore performance.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 6/10 --
The problem lies in the casting.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/5 --
[It] doesn't hold a candle to Franco Zeffirelli's nearly flawless 1968 version, but it [is] the best Shakespeare film before Laurence Olivier started making them.
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Product Description:
This timeless Shakespeare tale of two star-crossed lovers has made it to the screen in numerous variations, but perhaps none rival director George Cukor's lavish 1936 production for sheer romantic will; producer Irving Thalberg appointed him for his well-known ability to weave elaborate productions and emotional story lines. Norma Shearer, Thalberg's wife, plays Juliet to Leslie Howard's Romeo. Both stars, at the height of their fame going into ROMEO AND JULIET (though neither was close to being an actual teenager), portray the achingly poignant young lovers whose families are sworn enemies in this classically beautiful Hollywood adaption. Striving for perfection, Thalberg hired literary consultants to ensure that the abridged screenplay would be faithful to the Bard's original lines. John Barrymore makes his presence felt as the boisterous Mercutio, Romeo's close friend. ROMEO AND JULIET was Cukor's, (originally a theater director) only Shakespeare adaptation, and his largest production up to that time. This well-crafted film garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and a Best Actress nod for Norma Shearer.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,207
- UPC: 012569795273
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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