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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: 28372
Studio: Koch Vision
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Editorial Review:
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 William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Originally broadcast on Britain’s ITV, this classic performance captures all the slapstick, puns and double entendres that have amazed and amused audiences for over four hundred years.
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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