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King Lear is the dramatic film adaptation of Shakespeare's stage play about a powerful king who makes a fateful decision and loses everything. It all begins when Lear (Orson Welles) makes a strange demand of his three daughters: they are each to tell him how much they love him, and he will dole out his land and power according to their replies. Lear's youngest and favorite daughter, Cordelia (Natasha Parry), answers simply, but honestly, and in doing so angers her father. Consequently, Cordelia is barred from her share of the land and banished from the kingdom. Lear's two eldest daughters, Goneril (Beatrice Straight) and Regan (Margaret Phillips) lavish false praises upon their father and are thus rewarded with his empire - a fatal mistake that Lear will soon bitterly regret… (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
(meer)Acteurs
Orson Welles
USA
Beste films:
Shogun (1980) (serie) - verteller
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Natasha Parry
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
The Name of the Game (1968) (serie)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
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Alan Badel
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
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Shogun (1980) (serie)
De rampenverwekker (1978)
Beatrice Straight
USA
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Network (1976)
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Arnold Moss
USA
Beste films:
Reign of Terror (1949)
Gambit (1966)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Micheál MacLiammóir
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Othello (1952)
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
Tom Jones (1963) - verteller
Wesley Addy
USA
Beste films:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Network (1976)
Scott Forbes
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Rocky Mountain (1950)
Operation Pacific (1951)
Peter Brook
Groot Brittanië
Alistair Cooke
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
Lloyd Bochner
Canada
Beste films:
The Name of the Game (1968) (serie)
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Columbo (1971) (serie)