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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0741952648796
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Koch Vision
Manufacturer: Koch Vision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Koch Vision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 14131
Studio: Koch Vision
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Product Description:
Sir Alec Guinness Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity gender and love in Tony Award winner John Dexter's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 741952648796 Manufacturer No: KOC-DV6487
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Movie
I saw this play on Masterpiece Theater, when I was younger. I always liked The Fool. I'm glad that I now have a physical copy of the play I remember enjoying so much as a teenager.
Rating:  - What an outstanding cast!
I've been waiting for years for a DVD release of this fine staging of Shakespeare's gender-bending comedy. I first saw this production on A&E cable in the 1980s and enjoyed it tremendously.
Joan Plowright is, by far, my favorite Viola/Cesario. She's convincing in both roles (and, compared to many other Violas, you can believe she might pass as a teenage boy). Plowright is equally impressive in the final act, which requires her to add still more subtleties to her performance.
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Rating: - Another 12th Night!
With Alec Guinness at his finest; how can anything, he is in, fail?
The story of 12th Night is so well known, it requires some pretty convincing acting, I think, to carry it off successfully. This production has the fine and convincing - even superlative acting, to achieve this unequivocal success.
All the principal actors were magnificent in their roles and even Tommy Steele managed to overcome his well known name as a 'pop' singer - just about! The inclusion of Steele ... Read More
Rating: - "Twelfth Night (1969) ... William Shakespeare ... Koch Vision (2008)"
Koch Vision and BBC presents "TWELFTH NIGHT" (6 January 1969) (103 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Splendidly acted -- Award winning performances --- In 1969 this version of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT reached U.K. television screens --- The production, which was directed by John Dexter and John Sichel, includes an all-star cast, with Alec Guinness in the role of Malvolio and Joan Plowright playing Viola plus Gary Raymond and John Moffat
The story line and plot, Separated in a ... Read More
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