Romeo and Juliet

Streaming video - 1968

Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, an iconic box-office record shattering adaptation, stars seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo and fifteen-year-old Olivia Hussey as Juliet. The raw talent of these leads capture the youth and innocence of the legendary characters like never before in what has gone down in history as one of the most profitable film adaptations of Shakespeare ever produced. Winner of Best Costume Design and Best Cinematography and nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best English-Language Foreign Film, Most Promising Newcomer - Female (Olivia Hussey), Most Promising Newcomer - Male (Leonard Whiting), and nominated for Best... Director and Best Original Score at the **Golden Globes**. *"Franco Zeffirelli's ROMEO AND JULIET is a lovely, sensitive, friendly popularization of the play..." - Renata Adler, **New York Times***

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Paramount Pictures 1968.
2019.
Language
English
Other Authors
Franco Zeffirelli (film director), John McEnery (actor), Keith Skinner, Leonard Whiting, Michael York, Milo O'Shea, Natasha Parry, Olivia Hussey, Pat Heywood, Richard Warwick, Robert Stephens
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).