Direction: Elijah Moshinsky

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Alan Howard · Joss Ackland · Irene Worth · Mike Gwilym

Synopsis Caius Martius, renamed Coriolanus after his victorious attack on the city of Corioli, returns to Rome to become its joint head of state. A warrior and not a politician, Coriolanus finds his pride and arrogance turning the citizens against him....

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Richard Johnson · Hugh Thomas · Aimée Delamain · Claire Bloom

Synopsis Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of...

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Albert Finney · Linda Marlowe · Sarah Berger · Nicky Henson

Synopsis Maurice Allington, the alcoholic, sexually promiscuous, and unappealing lead character owns a country inn called "The Green Man." He frightens and regales his guests, when he's not trying to seduce them, with tales of ghosts ans spirits haunting his hotel.

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Celia Johnson · Ian Charleson · Michael Hordern · Angela Down

Synopsis Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her...

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Jonathan Kent · Maureen Lipman · Christopher Blake · Geoffrey Burridge

Synopsis When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic...

Direction Elijah Moshinsky

Cast Estelle Kohler · Nigel Davenport · Hugh Quarshie · Geoffrey Lumsden

Synopsis In the woods of Athens, runaways couples, the King and Queen of the fairies, the impish sprite Puck and a band of ‘rude mechanicals’ prove “the course of true love never did run smooth” as they play out a comedy...

Direction Tristram Powell · Udayan Prasad · Christopher Morahan · Sandy Johnson

Cast Geoffrey Chater · Bernard Hill · Pete Postlethwaite · Patrick Godfrey

Synopsis (1985-2002). 10 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...