The Taming of the Shrew
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DVD Details
- Production Notes
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
- Theatrical Trailer
- Bonus Trailers
- Talent Files
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 26, 1999
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton | |
Performer: | Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern, Alfred Lynch, Alan Webb, Victor Spinetti & Roy Holder | |
Directed by | Franco Zeffirelli | |
Edited by | Peter Taylor & Carlo Fabianelli | |
Written by | Paul Dehn & Franco Zeffirelli | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Cinematography by | Luciano Trasatti | |
Art Direction by | Giuseppe Mariani & Elven Webb | |
Produced by | Elizabeth Taylor, Franco Zeffirelli & Richard Burton | |
Director of Photography: | Oswald Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
As for Mr. Zeffirelli's settings and the elaborate Renaissance costumes, they look very rich and mellow in the misty pastel colors that are used. But they, too, like Nino Rota's music, tend to monotony.
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New York Times
The Bard has not been badly served. The Taming has a justness and balance to it that puts it up into the ranks of the best of Shakespearean films.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Riotous fun.
Movie Mom
Rating: 4/5 --
Zeffirelli can't bring himself quite to the realm of radical Shakespeare. However, the film is a great vehicle for the two most famous stars of its era.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
High-spirited whoop-de-doo Shakespeare, not too adulterated, not too precious, and geared slyly towards an audience who may have read about this kind of marriage on the showbiz gossip pages.
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Film4
More debased Shakespeare from Franco Zeffirelli.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 9/10 --
...ranks among the finest screen adaptations of a Shakespeare play ever made.
Movie Metropolis
Description by OLDIES.com:
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in William Shakespeare's comic look at male chauvinism and women's lib in the 16th century. Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he encounters the fiery Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. Their honeymoon becomes a humorous battle of wit and insult with Kate as determined to maintain her independence as Petruchio is to "tame" her. When the embattled couple returns to Padua, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that his is the most obedient way to dominate her mate.
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- Sales Rank: 32,314
- UPC: 043396011090
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