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The fully restored version of Orson Welles' adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Studio actually released a dubbed version and cut the film by twenty minutes.

Product Identifiers

ProducerOrson Welles

EAN5028836030041

eBay Product ID (ePID)3945134

Product Key Features

ActorAlan Napier, Peggy Webber, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Lederer, Jerry Farber, John Dierkes, Morgan Farley, Dan O'herlihy, Robert Coote, Archie Heugly, Lionel Braham, Jeanette Nolan, Roddy Mcdowall, Christopher Welles, George 'shorty' Chirello, Erskine Sanford, Edgar Barrier, Gus Schilling, Keene Curtis, Brainerd Duffield, William Alland, Orson Welles

Film/TV TitleOrson Welles' Macbeth

DirectorOrson Welles

LanguageEnglish

Run Time103 Mins

Aspect Ratio4:3

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesBlack & White, Restored\Featurette-1. Orson Welles' Return to Glennascaul

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

ComposerJacques Ibert

Production DesignerFred A. Ritter

Additional InformationA dark, moody screen version of the classic tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide--in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision. As with his other masterpieces, Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve the ominous sense of a land in peril. Originally cut to 89 minutes for theatrical release, the film has been restored to its full 105 minutes, with dialogue redubbed by Welles and the other actors to cut down on the Scottish accents. Nominated for an award in the 1948 Venice Film Festival.

Special EffectsHoward Lydecker, Theodore Lydecker

ScreenwriterOrson Welles

Costume DesignerAdele Palmer, Fred A. Ritter, Orson Welles

AuthorWilliam Shakespeare

Sound sourceMono

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Movie/TV TitleOrson Welles' Macbeth

EditorLouis Lindsay

Director of PhotographyWilliam Bradford, John L. Russell