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starring: Paul Scofield, Anne-Lise Gabold, Ian Hogg, Tom Fleming, Alan Webbdirected by: Peter Brook
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014756037420
Format: Black & White, Mono, NTSC
Label: Columbia Tristar GB
Manufacturer: Columbia Tristar GB
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Tristar GB
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 16207
Studio: Columbia Tristar GB
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Rating:  - A King Lear like no other!
Of all the excellent performances of King Lear available to watch, Peter Brook's version (with a stand-out performance by Scofield, with an incredible character arc that few actors could carry off within one dramatic piece) is by far the very best.
If you haven't seen Peter Brooks' King Lear, you've missed an experience of the play that will transform your appreciation of Shakespeare forever. Pure genius. Thought-provoking, disturbing, also oddly inspiring...and amazing cinematography ... Read More
Rating:  - The best DVD I never saw.
This is, too my mind, the best performance ever of the best play ever; but the DVD format is incompatible with US DVD players.
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