Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth trip" movie. This is because Zeffirelli broke the long-standing tradition of casting over-aged, ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1968 | Running Time: 140 minutes
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$8.99ROMEO & JULIET (1968) / (WS)
The unrepentant romanticism of Franco Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet works beautifully in translating William Shakespeare's tragic drama to the silver screen. The lyrical score of Academy Award-winner Nino Rota (The Godfather) and the voluptuous and magnificent period costumes by Danilo Donati combine with the sensuous and dusty cinematography of Pasqualino De Santis to evoke the Italian renaissance setting perfectly. Ever the traditionalist, Zefferelli took a consistently conventional approach ...more
- Olivia Hussey - Juliet
- Leonard Whiting - Romeo
- Milo O'Shea - Friar Laurence
- Michael York - Tybalt
- John McEnery - Mercutio
- Murray Head - The Chorus
- Carlo Palmucci
- Laurence Olivier - Narrator of Prologue
- Roberto Antonelli
- Pat Heywood - The Nurse
- Natasha Parry - Lady Capulet
- Robert Stephens - Prince Of Verona
- Keith Skinner - Balthazar
- Richard Warwick - Gregory
- Franco Zeffirelli - Director
- Anthony Havelock-Allan - Producer
- Lord John Brabourne - Producer
- Masolino D'Amico - Screenwriter
- Franco Zeffirelli - Screenwriter
- Franco Brusati - Screenwriter
- Luciano Puccini - Art Director
- Richard Goodwin - Associate Producer
- Danilo Donati - Costume Designer
- Reginald Mills - Editor
- Nino Rota - Composer (Music Score)
- Henry Mancini - Songwriter
- Eugen Walter - Songwriter
- Lorenzo Mongiardino - Production Designer












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