Romeo and Juliet
1955-05-22 | 140 min
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.
Genres
Comedy Romance Drama
Cast
Virginia McKenna
Tony Britton
Flora Robson
Laurence Payne
Richard Wordsworth
Harcourt Williams
Eric Lander
