Richard III (1955 film)
1956
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- While unsuccessful at the box office, it received critical acclaim, and won several accolades. At the 50th British Academy Film Awards, it won the awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, with nominations for Best British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Oct 7, 2009 · Richard III,written in about 1591, is said to be Shakespeare's first great play. We can only speculate about the effect it had on its first audiences. The Elizabethan drama was a great popular art form, created not for royal courts but for poor groundlings who paid a penny to stand in the pit beneath the stage, or bourgeois such as Pepys, who ...
Jan 19, 1996 · One of the most audacious proposals in all of literature occurs in Shakespeare's "Richard the Third," when the misshapen Richard, who has caused the death of King Henry VI, proposes to his widow, Anne, as she accompanies the corpse of her husband through the streets.
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster.
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- Richard Loncraine
96% Tomatometer 51 Reviews 85% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III (Ian McKellen) descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the...
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Jul 11, 2022 · Whether Richard chooses his evil in reaction to the world’s revulsion — a “lump of foul deformity” is one of the nicer descriptions of him — or whether he was merely born to be bad is a question...
Dec 29, 1995 · Richard III: Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury, Ian McKellen, Bill Paterson. The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
Richard III Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Farah Cheded A Good Movie To Watch. An inspired Shakespeare update with a terrifying Ian McKellen performance at...
