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| Paul Scofield | ... | King Lear | |
| Irene Worth | ... | Goneril | |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Albany | |
| Susan Engel | ... | Regan | |
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Tom Fleming | ... | Kent |
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Anne-Lise Gabold | ... | Cordelia |
| Ian Hogg | ... | Edmund | |
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Robert Langdon Lloyd | ... | Edgar (as Robert Lloyd) |
| Jack MacGowran | ... | Fool | |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Cornwall | |
| Barry Stanton | ... | Oswald | |
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Alan Webb | ... | Gloucester |
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Søren Elung Jensen | ... | Duke of Burgundy |
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The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofield is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "unnatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve. Written by alfiehitchie
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4 February 1971 (Denmark) See more »Also Known As:
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King Lear: Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death.
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Filmways also produced Tony Richardson's " Hamlet" and the 1968 version of " A Midsummer's Nights Dream ". They had planned to film the Polanski " Macbeth " , but pulled out at the last minute. See more »Quotes
[first lines]King Lear: Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death.
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Peter Brook's film is a very bleak and barbaric interpretation of King Lear. He does a great job directing and whilst some of his experimentation doesn't pay off (such as very strange zooming with Kent at the beginning), when it does pay off it is fantastic (such as Lear's monologues)