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A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935, Movie, NR, 132 mins

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Cigar-chomping Jack Warner does Shakespeare? What fools these mortals be! Theatrical genius Max Reinhardt had successfully staged the play in Europe and felt that A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM was ideal for film, because the fairy sequences offered the proper magic for celluloid. Reinhardt, though, had no idea how to shoot this masterpiece, and blurry rushes of several forest scenes suggested that entrusting him with $1.5 million was unwise. So experienced Hollywood man Dieterle... read more leave a comment
Year: 1935
Rated NR

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James Cagney: Bottom
Dick Powell: Lysander
Joe E. Brown: Flute
Jean Muir: Helena
Hugh Herbert: Snout
Ian Hunter: Theseus

 

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