Romeo and Juliet, the worst forfeit of all time

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Gregory La Cava

Cast

Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou

Amidst much merriment and commotion, Dirch Passer has utilized his camera equipment to capture this delightfully humorous farce, in which he himself performs alongside some of the most prominent names in Danish cinema. The story of the confused doorman at Fiskeby Badehotel and his unusual experiences with beautiful girls and crazy gues...

Runtime

1h 21m

Cast

Ulf Pilgaard, Daimi, Klaus Pagh

In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students.

Runtime

4h 11m

Director

Hossam El Dine Mostafa, Galal El Sharkawy

Cast

Adel Emam, Adel Imam, Saeed Saleh

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard...

Runtime

2h 55m

Cast

James Earl Jones, Paul Sorvino, Raúl Juliá

Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.

Runtime

2h 46m

Cast

Nathan Lane, Jean Smart, Harriet Sansom Harris