The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)iMDB Rating: 7.8Date Released : 19 November 1952
Genre : Drama, Romance
Stars : Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian aristocrat, elopes with Moorish military hero Othello, to the great resentment of Othello's envious underling Iago. Alas, Iago knows Othello's weakness, and with chilling malice works on him with but too good effect...
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One of the great Shakespeare films.
I must be one of the few who saw this film (more than once!) before it vanished in the 60's. I saw it on TV in the last 50's, and later brought it to the small college where I was teaching 63-65. Though heavily cut and more than a little rearranged, it is one of the very finest of Shakespeare films. Performances are generally excellent and unified in style and diction. Welles, or course, is magnificent. Anyone who thinks he was never anything but a self-parodying ham has not seen this film. One could wish than MacLiammoir had had more overt FUN as Iago, who does what he does, in part at least, in an attempt to stimulate himself out of his blunted affect. The film also has some of the finest black-and-white cinematography of all time, and uses architecture in a unique and effective way.
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