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Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Top Cast
Virginia McKenna as Juliet Capulet
Tony Britton as Romeo Montague
Flora Robson as Nurse
Laurence Payne as Mercutio
Richard Wordsworth as Tybalt
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