King Lear
(DVD)

Special features include: Cast; character descriptions; plot summary; scene-by-scene outline; biographies of William Shakespeare and Laurence Olivier; filmography of Laurence Olivier.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Videotape editors, D.L. Hayes, Ron Swain ; production designer, Roy Stonehouse ; costume designer, Tanya Moiseiwitsch ; fight arranger, Bill Hobbs ; music composed and conducted by Gordon Crosse, played by members of the Halle Orchestra.

Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Anna Calder-Marshall, Jeremy Kemp, Robert Lang, Robert Lindsay, Leo McKern, David Threlfall, Dorothy Tutin, John Hurt, Diana Rigg, Brian Cox, Edward Petherbridge, Geoffrey Bateman, John Cording, Benny Young, Esmond Knight, Ian Ruskin, Paul Curran, Ronald Forfar, Harry Walker.

Originally broadcast on television on Channel 4 by Granada Television on Apr. 3, 1983.

Produced by Granada Television in their Manchester studios for transmission by the then fledgling Channel Four, this video production of King Lear is the timeless tale of avarice and lust for power in which a foolish king descends into madness after he divides his vast kingdom between two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, unleashing a conspiracy of greed and cruelty and bringing tragic consequences for all.

DVD; NTSC; 4:3 full screen; Dolby 2.0.

In English.