Henry V (1944)
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Esmond Knight
Synopsis:
A performance at the Globe of Shakespeare's play gradually morphs from on-stage action, through painted tableaux to the green fields of France, and back again.
Review:
Olivier's contribution to D-Day, actually filmed well out of bombs' way in Ireland, is a colourful pageant set to the music of William Walton, and with some of the finest Shakespearean voices of the day (as Branagh's would have). It is the kind of imaginative approach to film-making one would expect of Powell and Pressburger, and would confirm Olivier as a true artist of the medium, had he done nothing else.
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Esmond Knight
Synopsis:
A performance at the Globe of Shakespeare's play gradually morphs from on-stage action, through painted tableaux to the green fields of France, and back again.
Review:
Olivier's contribution to D-Day, actually filmed well out of bombs' way in Ireland, is a colourful pageant set to the music of William Walton, and with some of the finest Shakespearean voices of the day (as Branagh's would have). It is the kind of imaginative approach to film-making one would expect of Powell and Pressburger, and would confirm Olivier as a true artist of the medium, had he done nothing else.
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Esmond Knight
Synopsis:
A performance at the Globe of Shakespeare's play gradually morphs from on-stage action, through painted tableaux to the green fields of France, and back again.
Review:
Olivier's contribution to D-Day, actually filmed well out of bombs' way in Ireland, is a colourful pageant set to the music of William Walton, and with some of the finest Shakespearean voices of the day (as Branagh's would have). It is the kind of imaginative approach to film-making one would expect of Powell and Pressburger, and would confirm Olivier as a true artist of the medium, had he done nothing else.