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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Romeo and Juliet (Motion picture : 1968)

Title:

Romeo and Juliet / a Paramount picture ; a BHE film made with Verona Produzione and Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica ; the Franco Zeffirelli production ; directed by Franco Zeffirelli ; produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne ; screenplay, Franco Brusati, Masolino D'Amico, Franco Zeffirelli.

Edition:

DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in

digital

optical

1.85:1

wide screen

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

auditory captions

Summary:

Considered one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.

Series:

Criterion collection 1171

Criterion collection ; 1171.

Subjects:

Romeo (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Juliet (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Married people -- Italy -- Verona -- Drama.

Families -- Italy -- Verona -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Italy -- Verona -- Drama.

Verona (Italy) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Romance films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Coming-of-age films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Zeffirelli, Franco, film director, screenwriter.

Brusati, Franco, screenwriter.

D'Amico, Masolino, screenwriter.

Havelock-Allan, Anthony, film producer.

Brabourne, John, film producer.

Whiting, Leonard, actor.

Hussey, Olivia, actor.

McEnery, John, 1943-2019, actor.

O'Shea, Milo, 1926-2013, actor.

Heywood, Pat, 1927- actor.

Stephens, Robert, 1931-1995, actor.

York, Michael, 1942- actor.

Robinson, Bruce, 1946- actor.

Hardwick, Paul, 1918-1983, actor.

Parry, Natasha, actor.

Pierfederici, Antonio, 1919-1999, actor.

Ruspoli, Esmeralda, 1928-1988, actor.

Bisacco, Roberto, actor.

Wray, Ramona, 1971- writer of accompanying material.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet.

Paramount Pictures Corporation, presenter.

BHE Productions, production company.

Verona produzione, production company.

Dino de Laurentiis cinematografica, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Romeo & Juliet

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: excerpt from the 2018 documentary "Franco Zeffirelli, directing from life"; interviews with actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting from 1967 and 2016; trailer; essay by scholar Ramona Wray.

Cinematographer, Pasqualino De Santis ; editor, Reginald Mills ; music, Nino Rota.

Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens, Michael York, Bruce Robinson, Paul Hardwick, Natasha Parry, Antonio Pierfederici, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Roberto Bisacco.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1); monaural.

English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

ISBN:

9798886070194

9798886070194 : DVD

888607019D : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC3443D

Other Number:

1355362562

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

995223

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Romeo an