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William Shakespeare (play)
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18 October 1953 (USA)
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Based on Shakespeare's play: King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Orson Welles | ... | King Lear |
 | Natasha Parry | ... | Cordelia |
| Arnold Moss | ... | Duke of Albany |
| Bramwell Fletcher | ... | Earl of Kent |
| David J. Stewart | ... | Oswald |
| Margaret Phillips | ... | Regan |
| Beatrice Straight | ... | Goneril |
| Alan Badel | ... | Fool |
| Micheál MacLiammóir | ... | Poor Tom (as Micheal MacLiammoir) |
| Frederick Worlock | ... | Earl of Gloucester (as Frederic Worlock) |
| Scott Forbes | ... | Duke of Cornwall |
| Wesley Addy | ... | King of France |
| Fred Sadoff | ... | Duke of Burgundy |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | First gentleman |
| Chris Gampel | ... | First servant |
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Miscellaneous: Orson Welles reverses the wording of one line in Act IV, Scene vii. Instead of "You have some cause, they have not," Welles says, "They have some cause, you have not," which completely reverses the meaning of the line.
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This version has had a major subplot edited out. Welles is affecting and plays up the soft side of Lear. Cheap but evocative sets. Imaginative camera-work, beyond what you see these days on TV. Deceptively, the video's cover actually pictures Welles as *Macbeth* -- in "King Lear," his false nose and huge beard make him a bit hard to recognize. In all, a good version, but its director, Peter Brook, went on to direct a better one with Paul Scofield in 1971.