Macbeth

About the film

Macbeth - Act II, Scene 2, and Act V, Scene 1 - murder and sleep-walking scene.

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Details

• Release year - 1945
• Director - Henry Cass
• Production company - G.B. Instructional, Theatrecraft, Ltd.
• Producer - Sydney Box
• Cinematographer - Ernest Palmer
• Composer - Ben Frankel
• Editor - Julian Wintle
• Sound recording - George Burgess, L. Clark
• Musical director - Muir Mathieson
• Performers - Wilfred Lawson (Macbeth), Cathleen Nesbitt (Lady Macbeth), Felix Aylmer (Doctor), Catherine Lacey (Gentlewoman)
• Music played by - London Symphony Orchestra
• Production design - Compton Bennett
• Associate producer - Knox Laing
• Art director - James Carter
• Costume - Dorothy Sinclair
• Make-up - Nell Taylor
• Running time (minutes) - 15 mins 36 secs

Original description

Murder and sleep-walking scene

'The above excerpts* from Shakespeare have been filmed in order to enable those who have no opportunity of attending performances of Shakespearean plays in a theatre to see how the various parts are played by leading English actors and actresses.'

(Films of Britain - British Council Film Department Catalogue - 1946)

*Refers also to companion piece, Macbeth.

Did you know?

• Cathleen Nesbitt and Wilfred Lawson both appeared in Fanny by Gaslight (1944) – the second most popular film of 1944.
• Felix Aylmer also features in the British Council film Julius Caesar (1945) as ‘Marcus Brutus’.

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