- Macbeth (Olive Signature)

Description

"OLIVE SIGNATURE FEATURES-New High-Definition digital restoration-Includes both 1948 and 1950 versions-Audio Commentary with Welles biographer Joseph McBride- Welles and Shakespeare"" - an interview with Welles expert, Professor Michael Anderegg - Adapting Shakespeare on Film"" - a conversation with directors Carlo Carlei (Romeo & Juliet) and Billy Morrissette (Scotland, PA)-Excerpt from We Work Again, a 1937 WPA documentary containing scenes from Welles' Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth- That Was Orson Welles"" - an interview with Welles' close friend and co-author, Peter Bogdanovich - Restoring Macbeth"" - an interview with former UCLA Film & Television Archive Preservation Officer Bob Gitt- Free Republic: The Story of Herbert J. Yates and Republic Pictures"" - The Two Macbeths an essay by critic Jonathan RosenbaumSomething wicked this way comes in Orson Welles cinematic retelling of William Shakespeare s Macbeth. Welles stars as the titular Macbeth a doomed Scottish lord tragically undone by his own ambition. Welles noir-tinged interpretation bubbles over with supernatural prophecy and murderous intrigue, effectively mixing the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve an ominous sense of a land in peril. Beautifully shot by John L. Russell (Psycho) and starring Orson Welles (who also adapted, produced and directed), Jeanette Nolan (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Dan O Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe), Roddy McDowall (How Green Was My Valley) and Alan Napier (TV s Batman), Macbeth is an altogether unique interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish play. This special Olive Signature edition includes both the original 1948 107-minute cut, replete with affected highland accents, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release that removed most of the accented dialogue."