
Romeo and Juliet
Original title: Romeo and Juliet
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5/22/1955
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2h 20min

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Comedy
Romance
Drama
Synopsis
Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Direction: Harold Clayton
Screenwriter: Dallas Bower
Cast

Virginia McKenna
Juliet Capulet

Tony Britton
Romeo Montague

Flora Robson
Nurse

Laurence Payne
Mercutio

Richard Wordsworth
Tybalt

Harcourt Williams
Friar Laurence


















