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Richard III is a 1955 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role.
Richard III: Directed by Laurence Olivier. With Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson. Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
In Richard III, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier brings Shakespeare’s masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to ravishing cinematic life. Olivier is diabolically captivating as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who, through a series of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.
The deformed Richrd of Gloucester cuts a bloody path to the throne in Shakespeare's historical tragedy. Determined to seize the English throne from his brother Edward IV, he rouses Edward's hatred from their brother Clarence, who is arrested and murdered while imprisoned.
5 Dis 2008 · Richard III (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Lady Anne Richard (star and director Laurence Olivier) informs Lady Anne (Claire Bloom) that he's murdered her husband, then proceeds to seduce her, in Alexander Korda's 1955 production of Richard III.
As director, producer, and star, Laurence Olivier transfigures Shakespeare’s great historical drama Richard III into a mesmerizing vision of Machiavellian villainy. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
23 Feb 2004 · Shot in sixteen weeks during late 1954 and early 1955, Richard III was the final, crowning glory of the British studio system and the end of the great cycle of British films aimed at international audiences that had helped spawn the careers of David Lean, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Carol Reed, and Olivier himself.
