The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. Most of the 679 1950s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
In Shakespeare's classic play, 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.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
18 audience votes
Key crew
- Renato CastellaniDirector
Cast
- Laurence HarveyRomeo
- Susan ShentallJuliet
- Flora RobsonNurse
- Norman WoolandParis
- Mervyn JohnsFriar Laurence
- John GielgudChorus
- Bill TraversBenvolio
- Sebastian CabotCapulet
- Lydia SherwoodLady Capulet
- Ubaldo ZolloMercutio
- Enzo FiermonteTybalt
- Giulio GarbinettoMontague
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Themes
dysfunctional family