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| Lopert Films | Release Date: March 11, 1956 |
Starring:
Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Mary Kerridge, Nicholas Hannen, Pamela Brown, Paul Huson, Ralph Richardson, Stewart Allen
Summary:
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
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[Olivier's] greatest Shakespearean movie. [27 Feb 2004]
Laurence Olivier gives the textbook course on Shakespearean villainy as crown-stealing schemer Richard. Considered by many to be Olivier's best take on the Bard. [22 Feb 2004]
As director and star, Olivier succeeds with the soliloquies as neither he nor anyone else ever did on film before; they're intimate, yet brazen.
Donning a doozy of a puttied schnoz, a slightly exaggerated limp, and a boyish, midnight-black wig, Sir Laurence Olivier feels more at home in the eponymous role of his own adaptation of Richard III than he does in any of his other storied roles, holding and releasing the succulent prose with unerring confidence and clarity.
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