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Romeo and Juliet

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

1955 |2h 20m |  Comedy, Romance, Drama

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Virginia McKenna

Juliet Capulet

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Tony Britton

Romeo Montague

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Flora Robson

Nurse

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Laurence Payne

Mercutio

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Richard Wordsworth

Tybalt

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Harcourt Williams

Friar Laurence

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