This is a 19.5"x 27.5" Yugoslvian poster for the 1965 Stuart Burge
film Othello based on the play by William Shakespeare and
starring Laurence Olivier performing in blackface as Othello. Plot
summary: In 16th Century Cyprus Desdemona [Maggie Smith] marries the
Venetian Moor Othello in defiance of her father Brabantio [Anthony
Nicholls]; Othello's former lieutenant Iago [Frank Finlay] is not
happy about the marriage either and works to undermine Desdemona's
reputation.
Cast and crew: Stuart Burge, William Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier,
Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Frank Finlay, Derek Jacobi,
Robert Lang, Kenneth MacKintosh, Anthony Nicholls, Sheila Reid,
Malcolm Terris, Harry Lomax, Michael Turner, Terence Knapp, Keith
Marsh, Tom Kempinski
This is a 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for the 1985 Akira
Kurosawa film Ran based in part on William
Shakespeare's King Lear with screenplay by Akira Kurosawa,
Hideo Oguni and Masato Ide and starrring Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord
Hidetora Ichimonji. Plot summary: Hidetora Ichimonji is an elderly
15th Century warlord who has decided to divide his kingdom among his
his three sons. The sons are each to be given one of his three
castles. This leads to war among the sons over which of them will
control the Ichimonji clan.
This is a 13" x 30" Australian day bill poster for the 1953 Joseph
L. Mankiewicz film Julius Caesar adapted from the play by
William Shakespeare with screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and
starring Marlon Brando as Mark Antony. Plot summary: In 44 BC,
believing his ambition will lead to Tyranny, Brutus, [James Mason]
Cassius [John Gielgud] and other high-ranking Romans murder Julius
Caesar [Louis Calhern]. When Marc Antony defends Caesar in his
funeral oratory the Roman people turn against the conspirators and
drive them out of the city. Because his earlier performances had given
him a reputation as a "mumbler," Brando's casting in a role from
Shakespeare was was initially seen as a mistake, but thanks to his
adoption of suggestions from John Gielgud, an experienced
Shakespearian actor, Brando turned in a memorable performance that
established him as a versatile actor.
Cast and crew: John Gielgud, James Mason, Marlon Brando, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, William Shakespeare, George Macready, Michael Pate, Richard Hale, Alan Napier, John Hoyt, Tom Powers, William Cottrell, Jack Raine
This is a 12" x 15.5" handmade Egyptian lobby card for the 1955
Sergei Yutkevich film Othello based on the play by William
Shakespeare and starring Sergei Bondarchuk, performing in blackface as
Othello.
Cast and crew: Sergei Yutkevich, William Shakespeare, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky, Yevgeni Vesnik, Antonina Maksimova, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Yevgeni Teterin
This undated rerelease poster by an unknown designer advertises a
120-minute black-and-white film by groundbreaking director Mohammed
Karim based on the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet
adapted by Abbas Alam with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Karim,
cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim and musical score and lyrics by
Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Plot Summary: Engineer Aziz [Mohamed Abdel Wahab] had to go to his home
town after receiving a telegram about his father's death. On the train
he met Fekria [Ragaa Abdou] and they were attracted to each other. It became clear
the she was going to the same town but after his arrival he found that
the telegram was just a trick his father had played to force him to go
back to his home town to help him in the election campaign against his
arch rival. Aziz also found that Fakria was the daughter of his
father's rival and that he was actually her enemy. Aziz tried to get
close to Fakria and talk her into making peace between the two
families by marrying him. Fakria convinced her father that she would
marry Aziz to get revenge against him and his father, and Aziz did the
same thing. Both sets of parents tried to torment each other through
their children, but Aziz and Fakria married and were deeply in love.
The families visited the couple and pretended in front of them to go
along with the previous agreement. The parents soon discovered that
the couple had betrayed them and were happily in love. Aziz took the
opportunity to convince the parents to make peace and come to terms.
He succeeded in this, especially after one family's son married the
daughter of another family; there were grandchildren at the end of the
film.
