Richard III (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2013
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom & John Gielgud | |
Directed by | Laurence Olivier | |
Edited by | Helga Cranston | |
Original story by | William Shakespeare | |
Composition by | William Walton | |
Cinematography by | Otto Heller | |
Art Direction by | Carmen Dillon | |
Produced by | Laurence Olivier |
Entertainment Reviews:
It becomes almost laughable when it tries to transcend its own timidity in the dramatic climaxes.
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Time Out
With its stylized medieval sets and vivid Technicolor, this 1955 film stands out as the strangest and most imaginative of director-star Laurence Olivier's three great Shakespeare adaptations...
Premiere
Laurence Olivier's classic rendition (1956) of Shakespeare's total villain contains one of his most engaging performances and reveals some of his best spatial manipulation of action.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
The quality of production was superb, and a viewer had a true sense of pageantry and court grandeur.
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New York Times
The final word, however, must be that this is a superb and bold achievement, most honourable to Shakespeare and to the actor-producer-director, something of a cinematographic miracle.
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Guardian
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's fascinating to note that Richard is almost always portrayed by middle-aged actors - Olivier was 48, and actually comes in at the low end. In reality, Richard was only 32 when he died.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Rating: B+ --
The conception and execution of this film is not as bold as Henry V or Hamlet (also by Olivier), but the cast, headed by Olivier as the malevolent hunchbacked monarch, Gielgud and Richardson, is superb.
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Product Description:
Amid the Wars of the Roses in England, ruling monarch Edward IV's lame, misshapen brother Richard schemes to ascend the throne. Richard turns the king against their other brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned for treason, then arranges for Clarence's murder. He then woos the Lady Anne, determined to wed her to increase his influence. When Edward finally dies, Richard plots the murders of the young heir apparent and his brother--his own nephews. His machinations accelerate and murder piles atop murder as Richard succeeds in taking the throne--and desperately tries to hold it. Laurence Olivier's classic protrayal of the ambitious, calculating man reveals both his wickedness and his unshakable strength. The lush photography and widescreen format do the elaborate battle scenes justice.
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- Sales Rank: 76,725
- UPC: 715515104616
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