Macbeth 1948 movie#Those who may also feel that it’s not even as good a movie as it could have been, might bear in mind that it was made very quickly on a low budget (as one of Republic’s occasional flings at “art”) and perhaps under the circumstances it’s surprising that it contains as much remarkable footage as it does. Reactions were still very mixed–perhaps it’s not unfair to say that most critics who didn’t like it were so incensed at the drastic cutting of the text, and its short comings as a dramatic performance of the play, that they overlooked or failed to appreciate its cinematic qualities and that most who liked it were so excited by Welles’ manner of telling the story as a film, in a style fraught with imaginative images and camerawork, that they were ready to forgive or ignore the fact that it wasn’t very good Shakespeare. cried “Oot! Oot! dom’d spot”) which were so unenthusiastically received that the soundtrack was hastily re-dubbed in blander tones. Orson Welles’ version first appeared heavily laced with Scottish burrs ( Time magazine insisted that Lady M. I guess the best film on the theme must be Kurosawa’s samurai-type variation, Throne of Blood–lacking Shakespeare’s text and much of his plot but a mightily impressive piece of cinema. Then there was the British gangster version, Joe Macbeth, not awfully good but fun in a way. Here comes another shocker–I thought Maurice Evans (in an otherwise undistinguished and inappropriately pretty-coloured movie) made Macbeth more of a believable, erring human being and less of a posturing, glowering, declaiming figurehead than any player I’d seen try it. Although Olivier might just be the boyo to pull it off, I’ve always had the feeling that Macbeth is an almost unplayable role. I’d seen so many stage and screen versions of Macbeth I felt it was due for a rest. This may be heresy, but when Laurence Olivier recently failed to find financial backing for a film of Macbeth, I was rather glad (I’d prefer anyway that he have a go at Lear). Editor: Louis Lindsay.Ĭast: Orson Welles ( Macbeth), Jeanette Nolan ( Lady Macbeth), Dan O’Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford, John Dierkes, Christopher Welles, Lurene Tuttle. Set Decoration: John McCarthy, Jr., James Redd. Screenplay: from the play by William Shakespeare. Toronto Film Society presented Macbeth (1948) on Monday, August 16, 1965 in a double bill with The Lady from Shanghai as part of the Season 17 Summer Series, Programme 4.
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