The Taming of the Shrew1967
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
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Cast
as Katherine, Katharina
as Petruchio
as Grumio
as Baptista
as Tranio
as Gremio
as Pedant
as The Priest
as Tailor
as Haberdasher
as Bianca
as Lucentio
as Hortensio
as Biondello
as Vincentio
as The Widow
as Haberdasher
as Nathaniel
as Curtis
as Gregory
as Philip
Critic Reviews for The Taming of the Shrew
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As for Mr. Zeffirelli's settings and the elaborate Renaissance costumes, they look very rich and mellow in the misty pastel colors that are used. But they, too, like Nino Rota's music, tend to monotony.
Comedy is sustained in witty wedding ceremony.
More debased Shakespeare from Franco Zeffirelli.
Riotous fun.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton supposedly smolder but actually screech and mock each other, seeming extremely emotionally involved but not in a good way.
The Bard has not been badly served. The Taming has a justness and balance to it that puts it up into the ranks of the best of Shakespearean films.
Audience Reviews for The Taming of the Shrew
"Too many words," I complained while a youth first exposed to the Bard and so voiced the tedium I felt under the deluge of verbiage, poetry or no, accustomed to dusty cowpokes who spoke only in monosyllables between gunfights or, say, gangsters who rattled curses like machine gunfire ... until this lively Zeffirelli production was shown me. And its still my fav Shakespeare, embodied with hew and vigor, muscle and blood and bone by Burton and Taylor in my fav film by them. Inspires me to take 30 minutes to say "I love you!" A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Super Reviewer
This is a great adaptation of a Shakespeare play. The actors are great, and work together well. It's very funny and enjoyable and I recommend this movie.
Super Reviewer
The film stars real-life husband and wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, then the hottest celebrity couple in the world. The themes of male chauvinism and feminism which underpin the comedic plot are brought out in a way that would have made the film instantly relevant to a 1960s audience. Provocative satire in sexual politics in the late 16th century. The fact that the play still resonates and can raise a smile suggests that things haven?t changed much in the past four hundred years vis-à-vis male-female relationships.
Super Reviewer
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