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/KING JOHN/ (1984)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 155 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 3rd December 1978
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A HISTORICAL TRAGEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

“Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on!”
The reign of England’s King John is threatened by Phillip of France who demands that John’s nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to placate the French, but there are others who seek to dispute his authority.
With a magnificent performance by Leonard Rossiter as King John and superb supporting roles by John Thaw and Claire Bloom, this production illuminates the themes of legitimacy and loyalty that run through Shakespeare’s powerful history play.

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(Flourish.) Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, and the
Earls of Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury: with them
Châtillon of France
KING JOHN:

"Now say, Châtillon, what would France with us?"
CHÂTILLON:

"Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France,
In my behaviour, to the majesty –
The borrowed majesty – of England here."
Leonard Rossiter
George Costigan John Thaw
and
Claire Bloom

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In Credits Order
Leonard Rossiter ... King John
William Whymper ... Chatillon
Mary Morris ... Queen Elinor
Robert Brown ... Earl of Penbroke
John Castle ... Earl of Salisbury
John Flint ... Lord Bigot
John Thaw ... Hubert de Burgh
George Costigan ... Philip the Bastard
Edward Hibbert ... Robert Faulconbridge
Phyllida Law ... Lady Faulconbridge
Mike Lewin ... James Gurney
Charles Kay ... King Philip
Jonathan Coy ... Lewis, the Dauphin
Luc Owen ... Arthur
Gorden Kaye ... Duke of Austria
Claire Bloom ... Constance
John Moreno ... Melun
Ian Barritt ... French Herald
Janet Maw ... Blanche
Carl Oatley ... English Herald
Clifford Parrish ... Citizen of Angiers
Richard Wordsworth ... Cardinal Pandulph

rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ian Brimble ... First Executioner
Tim Brown ... French Messenger
Ronald Chenery ... English Messenger
Alan Collins ... Peter of Pomfret
Ron Cook ... English Lord
Rusty Livingstone ... Prince Henry

Director: David Giles
Produced: Shaun Sutton
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
The Life and Death
of
King John
A Historie

ABOUT KING JOHN
A play called The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, published anonymously in 1591, has sometimes been thought to be a derivative version of Shakespeare’s King John, first published in the 1623 Folio; more probably Shakespeare wrote his play in 1595 or 1596, using The Troublesome Reign – itself based on Holinshed’s Chronicles and John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1562) – as his principal source. Like Richard II, King John is written entirely in verse. . . .

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