The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of the Wars of the Roses consisting of Shakespeare's Henry VI (3 parts) and Richard III, edited, rearranged and rewritten by John Barton and Peter Hall.
First broadcast on BBC TV in 1965 in 3 parts. Subsequently rebroadcast in the 1980s in 11 Parts.
My apologaze for realy bad video quality! Never released on video or DVD.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1393706/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060039/
David Warner ... King Henry VI
Peggy Ashcroft... Queen Margaret
Donald Sinden... Plantagenet
Janet Suzman... Joan la Pucelle
Charles Kay ... The Dauphine
Peter Gale ... John Talbot
Peter Geddis ... Alençon
Stephen Hancock ... Bassett
Paul Hardwick... Gloucester
Brewster Mason ... Warwick
Gareth Morgan ... Bolingbroke
Clive Morton... Lord Talbot
John Normington... Bedford
Colette O'Neil ... Eleanor
Nicholas Selby ... Winchester
William Squire... Suffolk
Hugh Sullivan ... Burgundy
Charles Thomas... Mortimer
Madoline Thomas... Margery Jourdain
etc
I would really love to get hold of the whole series as it is a classic of Theatre.
willshake58 5 months ago
So far I could not complain, save the verse crippling and scene changing: Madame Suzman plays a proper English incarnation of our warlike Jeanne (a far better one than in any movie made about her, save maybe Sandrine Bonnaire), Henry VI is played as a clumsy and misplaced cleric, unfit for state and majestic, the Duke of York does at least resemble the warlike and royal figure of Shakespeare; and Talbot is indeed an old English Achilles.
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago