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What a surprise. I had no idea these teleplays survived, or were even released on video until I stumbled across it just now. I just assumed they got wiped with the rest of the BBC's history. Sean Connery co-stars as Harry Percy in Richard 11 and as Hotspur in Henry IV in the BBC series AN AGE OF KINGS, adaptations of Shakespeare's historical plays that were shot on 16mm film. Bond in the Bard. I just bought this. The box-set consists of four plays on 5 discs:
Shakespeare's An Age of Kings (1960)
- Richard II Part 1: The Hollow Crown (4/28/1960)
- Richard II Part 2: The Deposing of a King (5/12/1960)
- Henry IV Part 1: Rebellion from the North (5/26/1960)
- Henry IV Part 2: The Road to Shrewsbury (6/9/1960)
- Henry IV Part 3: The New Conspiracy (6/23/1960)
- Henry IV Part 4: Uneasy Lies the Head (7/7/1960)
- Henry V Part 1: Signs of War (7/21/1960)
- Henry V Part 2: The Band of Brothers (8/4/1960)
- Henry VI Part 1: The Red Rose and the White (8/25/1960)
- Henry VI Part 2: The Fall of a Protector (9/6/1960)
- Henry VI Part 3: The Rabble from Kent (9/22/1960)
- Henry VI Part 4: The Morning's War (10/6/1960)
- Henry VI Part 5: The Sun in Splendour (10/20/1960)
- Richard III Part 1: The Dangerous Brother (11/3/1960)
- Richard III Part 2: The Boar Hunt (11/17/1960)
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What I really want to see is Connery's performance as Mountain McClintock in Rod Serling's REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT (BBC, 1957), his John Proctor in THE CRUCIBLE (BBC 1959), and his bloodied king untimely ripped in a Toronto-based telefilm of MACBETH (CBC, 1961).
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