Romeo and Juliet
by George Cukor
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Actor: Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, John Barrymore, Leslie Howard, Norma ShearerDirector: George Cukor
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Editor: Margaret Booth
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Writer: Talbot Jennings
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Romeo and Juliet
Movie Review: Great Movie With Lots Of Drama, Action, Romance, And Excitement!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was a truely touching movie, I like the way it was set up. the actos/ actresses, and the screen play were great!
Summary of Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's classic tale of love and youth ruined by a family feud. The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, a Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet. They fall in love and secretly marry. After killing a nephew of Lady Capulet in a fight, Romeo is banished from Verona. Capulet tries to marry Juliet to Paris, a prince. Juliet seeks the counsel of Friar Laurence, who married her and Romeo. He suggests a daring plan that ends tragically.The lovers of Shakespeare's tragi-romance are brought to suitably quivering life by Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard in this glossy 1936 MGM take on the play. And yes, they're a tad older than the headstrong youths of Shakespeare's story (Howard was 43!), but they make up for that with sheer fervor. Shearer's performance looks like Great Lady acting at times, but she commits completely to Juliet's passion, and Howard is a delight. Basil Rathbone and Edna May Oliver are slam-dunk casting as Tybalt and the Nurse, respectively, and if John Barrymore is too weathered for Mercutio, he nevertheless works up an antic, sarcastic energy in the role. The production was supervised by MGM boy wonder Irving Thalberg (Shearer's husband), and it's an utterly lavish affair; the courtyard for the balcony scene looks exactly as expansive and studio-moon-drenched as your romantic imagination tells you it should. The film went the way of many such prestige productions: director George Cukor later said it lost a million dollars. (This was the same year he made Sylvia Scarlett, another box-office flop that has aged well.) It may be Shakespeare Lite, but the film zips along on the back of a love story that has been, to say the least, quite durable over the years. --Robert Horton
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