Macbeth (1960)
- Starring:
- Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Schaefer
Synopsis of Macbeth
Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its 1960 production of Macbeth to film. Maurice Evans stars as the fatally ambitious Scots warrior, with Judith Anderson as Lady MacBeth and Malcolm Keen as Duncan, whom MacBeth murders in order to further his own advancement. The production was a restaging of Hall of Fame's live presentation of the play, which was telecast in 1954. So impressed were Shakespeare scholars by Evans' interpretation of Macbeth that few complaints were made about the rather ruthless cutting of the Shakespearean text. This George Schafer-directed Macbeth was eventually released theatrically in Europe, its running time expanded by outtakes and newly filmed footage. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Macbeth
- Maurice Evans - Macbeth
- Michael Hordern - Banquo
- Felix Aylmer - Doctor
- Jeremy Brett - Malcolm
- William Hutt - Ross
- Trader Faulkner - Seyton
- Valerie Taylor - First Witch
- April Olrich - Third Witch
- Simon Lack - Menteith
- Michael Ripper - First Murderer
- Malcolm Keen - Duncan
- Judith Anderson - Lady Macbeth
- Ian Bannen - Macduff
- Megs Jenkins - Gentlewoman
- Barry Warren - Donalbain
- Charles Carson - Caithness
- George Rose - Porter
- Anita Bolster - Second Witch
- Brewster Mason - Angus
- Scot Finch - Fleance
- Douglas Wilmer - Murderer
- Director(s):
- George Schaefer
- Writer(s):
- George Schaefer, Anthony Squire
- Producer(s):
- Phil C. Samuel
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