Macbeth

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Orson Welles

Archie Heugly

Lionel Braham

Roddy McDowall

Alan Napier

Peggy Webber 

Erskine Sanford

Keene Curtis

Edgar Barrier

Dan O'Herlihy

Jeanette Nolan

John Dierkes

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04/03/2007

BBC Two - Macbeth

Orson Welles stars in and directs a controversial version of Shakespeare's play.

Orson Welles's classic film version of Shakespeare's play about a Scottish nobleman heavily influenced by his wife's lust for power.

Classic film version of Shakespeare's play about a Scottish nobleman heavily influenced by his wife's lust for power. Dominated by actor/director/producer Orson Welles, both in terms of his screen presence and his departures from the text, the film was shot in just 23 days in the summer of 1947.

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