Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hannes Graff and Siegfried Javotnik are Austrian students. They could just as well be undergraduates at Columbia, bent on bringing off a zoo bust for the seals in Central Park. At first they throb and chortle through the spring countryside on a huge 700-cc. Royal Enfield motorcycle. But even there they come face to face with cruelty and the law. Siggy, the idealist of the pair, fights with a milkman who is mistreating a horse. Trying to escape the police, he is killed crashing into a wagonload of honey-filled beehives...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Royal Shakespeare Company makes the dream come true for television audiences...
...resonances tend to lose some of their force in a medium that emphasizes sight over sound. Putting a Shakespeare film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a chance to view it on CBS next Sunday (Feb. 9, 9-11:15 p.m., E.S.T...
...that your best friend loves the same girl." David Warner, remembered from Morgan (see CINEMA color), and Diana Rigg, onetime heroine of ABC's The Avengers, play two of the lovers as hot-blooded, impulsive adolescents; they are supported by Michael Jayston, a four-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Helen Mirren, one of the group's youngest leading ladies, who is currently touring the U.S. in Much Ado About Nothing. Hall's fairies are earthy and dirty-faced. His Titania (Judi Dench) is frankly "wicked, sexy, and erotic," and appears throughout covered only...
Though CBS will have to scratch two of its top Sunday prime-timers, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Mission: Impossible, the network is undoubtedly delighted with the arrangement. The sponsor, Xerox, is inserting only two commercials into the 2½-hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together...