Macbeth

Film details

Film TitleMacbeth
Suitability
Genre
Length107mins
Year1948
CountryUSA
DirectorOrson Welles
ActorsOrson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford, John Dierkes, Keene Curtis, Peggy Webber, Lionel Braham, Archie Heugly, Jerry Farber, Christopher Welles, Morgan Farley
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Graphic, atmospheric, a delirious B movie from a master filmmaker

Orson Welles lush adaptation of the Scottish Play is an expressionist masterpiece about a doomed man of ordinary ambition who believes an evil prophecy that he will become King. Selected by Mark Cousins to start our weekend of dreams.

Adventurous film-making that takes risks, and full of imaginative flourishes.

Powerhouse performance from Orson Welles as the troubled Prince.