Romeo and Juliet

Name: Romeo and Juliet
Director: Harold Clayton
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 1955-05-22
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Tony Britton, Flora Robson, Laurence Payne, Richard Wordsworth

Directed by Harold Clayton

Comedy

Romance

Drama

19552h 20m

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.