Shakespeare Comedies (Volume 3) - 6-DVD Box Set ( All's Well That Ends Well / "The BBC Television Shakespeare" Measure for Measure / Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / The Winter's Tale / The Tempest )

Shakespeare Comedies (Volume 3) - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: All's Well That Ends Well / "The BBC Television Shakespeare" Measure for Measure / Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / The Winter's Tale / The Tempest
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
935 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979-1984 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Elijah Moshinsky
Desmond Davis
David Hugh Jones
Jane Howell
John Gorrie

Written By:
Giovanni Boccaccio
William Shakespeare
John Gower
George Wilkins

Actors:
Celia Johnson ..... Countess of Rousillon
Ian Charleson ..... Bertram
Michael Hordern ..... Lafeu
Angela Down ..... Helena
Peter Jeffrey ..... Parolles
Kevin Stoney ..... Rinaldo
Donald Sinden ..... King of France
Robert Lindsay ..... Captain Dumain
Dominic Jephcott ..... Captain Dumain
Paul Brooke ..... Lavache
James Simmons ..... Bachelor
John Segal ..... Bachelor
Peter Sands ..... Bachelor
Yves Aubert ..... Bachelor
Terence McGinity ..... First Gentleman
Kenneth Colley ..... Duke Vincentio
Kate Nelligan ..... Isabella
Tim Pigott-Smith ..... Angelo
Christopher Strauli ..... Claudio
John McEnery ..... Lucio
Jacqueline Pearce ..... Mariana
Frank Middlemass ..... Pompey
Alun Armstrong ..... Provost
Adrienne Corri ..... Mistress Overdone
Ellis Jones ..... Elbow
John Clegg ..... Froth
William Sleigh ..... Barnardine
Neil McCarthy ..... Abhorson
Yolande Palfrey ..... Juliet
Eileen Page ..... Francisca
Edward Petherbridge ..... Gower
John Woodvine ..... King Antiochus
Edita Brychta ..... Antiochus's Daughter
Mike Gwilym ..... Pericles
Robert Ashby ..... Thaliard, Fifth Knight
John Bardon ..... Lord of Tyre, Fisherman of Pentapolis, Storm Sailor
Peter Gordon ..... Lord of Tyre, Pirate
Iain Mitchell ..... Lord of Tyre, Pirate
Patrick Godfrey ..... Helicanus
Toby Salaman ..... Escanes, Pandar
Norman Rodway ..... Cleon of Tarsus
Annette Crosbie ..... Dionyza
Christopher Saul ..... Lord of Tarsus, Fourth Knight
Gordon Gostelow ..... Fisherman of Pentapolis
Richard Derrington ..... Fisherman of Pentapolis, Gentleman of Ephesus
Richard Johnson ..... Cymbeline
Michael Pennington ..... Posthumus
Claire Bloom ..... Queen
Robert Lindsay ..... Iachimo
Helen Mirren ..... Imogen
Michael Gough ..... Belarius
Michael Hordern ..... Jupiter
John Kane ..... Pisanio
Hugh Thomas ..... Cornelius
Nicholas Young ..... Lord
Aimée Delamain ..... Gentlewoman
Paul Jesson ..... Cloten
Geoffrey Lumsden ..... Philario
Patsy Smart ..... Helen
John Welsh ..... Archidamus
David Burke ..... Camillo
Robert Stephens ..... Polixenes
Jeremy Kemp ..... Leontes
Anna Calder-Marshall ..... Hermione
Jeremy Dimmick ..... Mamillius
Merelina Kendall ..... Emilia
Susan Brodrick ..... Lady to Hermione
Leonard Kavanagh ..... Lord to Leontes
John Bailey ..... Lord to Leontes
Cyril Luckham ..... Antigonus
William Relton ..... Lord to Leontes
Margaret Tyzack ..... Paulina
John Benfield ..... Gaoler
Cornelius Garrett ..... Servant to Leontes
Michael Hordern ..... Prospero
Derek Godfrey ..... Antonio
David Waller ..... Alonso
Warren Clarke ..... Caliban
Nigel Hawthorne ..... Stephano
David Dixon ..... Ariel
Andrew Sachs ..... Trinculo
John Nettleton ..... Gonzalo
Alan Rowe ..... Sebastian
Pippa Guard ..... Miranda
Christopher Guard ..... Ferdinand
Kenneth Gilbert ..... Boatswain
Edwin Brown ..... Master
Paul Greenhalgh ..... Francisco
Christopher Bramwell ..... Adrian

Synopsis:

All's Well That Ends Well: Helena loves Bertram but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her? "The BBC Television Shakespeare" Measure for Measure: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation. Cymbeline: Cymbeline (Richard Johnson), the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen (Dame Helen Mirren) has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus (Michael Pennington), who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo (Robert Lindsay) that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong. The Winter's Tale: King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life. The Tempest: Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 13 August, 2023.