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Macbeth (also known as The Tragedy of Macbeth or Roman Polanski's Film of Macbeth) is a 1971 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski, and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan.
Dec 25, 1971 · Macbeth: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler. A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
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All those noble, tragic Macbeths -- Orson Welles and Maurice Evans and the others -- look like imposters now, and the king is revealed as a scared kid. No effort has been made to make Macbeth a tragic figure, and his death moves us infinitely less than the murder of Macduff's young son.
Proud Macbeth (Jon Finch) and his power-mad wife (Francesca Annis) plot to murder King Duncan (Nicholas Selby) and usurp the throne of Scotland, despite the increasing suspicions of Macbeth's...
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- Jon Finch
Macbeth. Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity.
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A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches. Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne.