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| Orson Welles' Macbeth [1948] | ![Orson Welles' Macbeth [1948]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B7RGQWAWL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'herlihy, Roddy Mcdowall, Edgar Barrier
Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 12296
Format: Black White, Full Screen, Pal, Restored
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 103 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5028836030041
ASIN: B00004U400
Release Date: August 25, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
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Orson Welles' IMacbeth/I is an expressionist masterpiece about a doomed man of ordinary ambition who believes an evil prophecy that he will become King. The shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Welles long considered IMacbeth/I to be the most filmable of the Bard's work. Produced on a slim budget over a mere 32 days, the results are consistently impressive. As depicted by Welles, the title character is not a warrior king or conscience-stricken, poetic soul on a par with Hamlet; rather, he is revealed to be a facile, superstitious man consigned to fate even as the character does not trust to fate. For her part, Lady Macbeth (Jeanette Nolan) is merely obsessed with the unimpeded exercise of her will to power, viewing her husband's life as a tale told by an idiot (she is particularly effective during the "out, damned spot" scene from Act V). Welles has also created some new scenes here, conflating several characters into a "Holy Father" (Alan Napier) while eliciting strong supporting turns from actors such as Dan O'Herlihy (Macduff) and Roddy McDowall (Malcolm). All of this unfolds within a highly disordered state in which nature itself is on the rant ("Fair is foul and foul is fair"). Though the technically poor soundtrack and the occasional indecipherable Scottish brogue make the film seem a trifle compromised at times, each moment feels preternaturally alive. There is an almost Brechtian quality here, with Welles giving us splendid pieces then leaving it to us to fit them into a theatrically coherent puzzle. Refusing to believe that Birnham Wood could ever travel to Dunsinane, Macbeth is finally exposed as a man of insufficient character. As such, some might suggest that this IMacbeth/I is more accurately described as the story of how Malcolm became King. I--Kevin Mulhall/I
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 THE macbeth October 28, 2008
the sets are surreal, absolutely perfect, welles gets to grips fully with shakes masterpeice, to me this is easily welles greatest acting, to me no other macbeth film comes even close, probably the one with john finch is a reasonable apprentice. the horror and evil are given full reign,some of the greatest ever moments of film,the camerawork is a work of art in itself,. i cannot understand some reveiwers moaning about the restoration it seems perfect. i have almost worn out my copy i have watched it so many times br /casio Mcsmith
 Great Film... Not so great DVD. November 13, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
If this movie is restored then I'm Santa Claus. The print is quite rough so I have no clue how they can claim it's restored unless it was restored by a blind person. Also, the reason I bought this version is because right there on the Amazon page it states it has a featurette.... Featurette - 1. Orson Welles' RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL. Nope, it doesn't have any such thing. Not sure who had their head up their butts on this release but somebody did. Great film.. just wait for a better DVD release.
Masterpiece with a cracked face March 8, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Welles lost Agnes Moorehead (he owed her money), had a very tight budget, had his soundtrack scrapped when the US studio objected to the brogues, in other words this was a typical Welles production post RKO. All the same, he gets at the dark heart of the play and the character by flashes of crude dark shadows and brilliant moments that are seldom touched in any production. His relatively crude face and heavy voice are actually well suited to MacBeth. The witches and magic, played for real, ground the film in the mud, which is where it belongs. Those who can only appreciate the more ethereal style of Shakespeare will be disappointed. This is the blood and guts.
Braceless butcher complements November 16, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you are using this for educational purposes, be aware the text is hacked about quite a bit. If your budget doesn't extend beyond one DVD and you want as full a text as possible, then the BBC Shakespeare version may suit you better, despite Nicol Williamson's overblown performance. pBut this DVD is a wonderful complement to other ostensibly more faithful productions because it really has been conceived as a movie, not a glorified record of a stage presentation (which the BBC version feels like, and which the Judi Dench/Ian McKellen RSC one palpably is). The liberties Welles takes with the text make sense because the visuals are doing the work of much of the language so why duplicate the effort? (And this more usual belt-and-braces approach, incidentally, helps to explain why most full-text Shakespeare films never quite come off.)pThat said, it does show its B movie budget roots - the biscuit tin crown isn't overly impressive and the accents are dodgy - but there is a real sense of darkness which feels more faithful to the spirit of the original than most other film or TV versions. Welles as Lear - now there would have been a thing ...
Restored (ish) October 1, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I got this for my wife who is taking GSCE English (she's Romanian so doesn't have such a qualification).pFirstly it says its restored, well if it is its not a good job. The sound in places is still muffled or silent and there are still pops and bubbles on the B/W film.pHOWEVER the film itself is excellent and Orson Welles (looking remarkably like Darren Clarke the golfer) plays and directs the film in a very traditional manner and anyone who enjoys Shakespear will enjoy this. The feigned Scottish accents on occassion get to your nerves, and apart from the unrestoredness of the "restored" film, it is a classic, much like a classic novel.pDon't expect light entertainment or a Brannaghesque Film. Expect a bigger Stage Play and thats what you get.
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