Movielogr
Romeo and Juliet (1955)
Directed by Harold Clayton
Overview
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.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Virginia McKenna | Tony Britton | Flora Robson | Laurence Payne | Richard Wordsworth | Harcourt Williams | Eric Lander