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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Franco Zeffirelli
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Actors:
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Cyril Cusack,
Victor Spinetti,
Alfred Lynch,
Alan Webb,
Roy Holder,
Mark Dignam,
Giancarlo Cobelli,
Ken Parry,
Anthony Gardner,
Natasha Pyne,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Richard Burton,
Michael Hordern,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Michael York
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)95.5
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Plot Summary:
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Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), ordain remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish spitfire, has tie the knot. Lucentio (Michael York), a student and the son of a affluent Pisan tradesman, has fallen in love with Bianca. He poses as a guru of music and rhyme to gain entrance to the Baptista household and to be near Bianca. In the meantime, Petruchio (Richard Burton), a fortune-hunting rogue from Verona, arrives in Padua, hoping to taking a wealthy wife. Hortensio (Conqueror Spin... etti), another swain of Bianca, directs Petruchio's attention to Katharina. When Hortensio warns him almost Katharina's scolding not seriously and fiery temper, Petruchio is challenged and resolves to seizure her love. Hortensio and another suitor of Bianca, Gremio (Cyril Cusack), accord to smokescreen Petruchio's costs as he pursues Katharina.
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NO TAMING THIS PAIR
Classic Shakespeare as it should be done and it hasn't dated so pay no attention to when it was made. Stunning locations, acting par excellence and the chemistry between Taylor and Burton at its fiery and passionate best.
Customer Review
I was in the British Merchant Navy in the early 1970's. we used to get 16 mm films sent to us and would watch them usually on a Saturday night , sometimes projected onto a screen under the stars.
Taming of the Shrew got to us somewhere in the Arabian Gulf and I managed to keep it on our ship for over 4 months and must have watched it over 70 times.
The same ship watched Kelly's Heroes 120 times !!
The film is such a great vehicle for all the players and they all seem to have enjoyed it. The chemisty between Burton and Taylor is awsome both pay it robustly and lustily. But the detail is also superb, the last scene is not PC but then neither was the writer !
get the film, get a bottle of Chianti, get some pasta and enjoy. Its great !
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