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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767080811
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767080815
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Running Time: 186 minutes
Sales Rank: 36792
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - High in Rank in Many Ways
I just finished viewing this production(from 1976) in tandem with the BBC/Time-Life 1978 version. The BBC series, of which I have most of the productions, is very fine. Proporting to be complete, which they claim to be on all of their productions without substantiation, they actually cut several scenes which are in the Thames production, to come in at 167 minutes, while the Thames version is 183 minutes. As no other video production I have seen that is now available comes close, this has to be ... Read More
Rating:  - Quite Good . . . Nicely Staged
Though not as romantic or adventurous as the 1968 and 1996 versions, this take on the star-crossed lovers follows the text much closer (but still edits out a few lines here and there). No standout performances, as everyone in the cast does a credible job. One curiosity: the actress Juliet looks and sounds much older than the teenager she was originally written to be. Romeo and his cronies work well together, and fiery-haired Tybalt is just plain mean.
Performed as an Elizabethan ... Read More
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