Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's -The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively, ...more
MPAA Rating: NR | Year: 1967 | Running Time: 122 minutes
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$13.99TAMING OF THE SHREW (1967) / (WS)
Sometimes art and real life combine in fortuitous ways, as when the rocky marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor gave fire and brimstone to their performances as the feuding couple in this 1967 film version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In 1963, the couple's romantic spark had added sizzle to Cleopatra, but, by 1966, their alcoholic rages in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf had seemed almost painfully authentic. Their marital problems were public knowledge by the ...more
- Alfred Lynch - Tranio
- Richard Burton - Petruchio
- Elizabeth Taylor - Katherine
- Vernon Dobtcheff - Pedant
- Michael York - Lucentio
- Michael Hordern - Baptista
- Natasha Pyne - Bianca
- Victor Spinetti - Hortensio
- Anthony Gardner - Haberdasher
- Milena Vukotic
- Alfredo Bianchini
- Cyril Cusack - Grumio
- Alan Webb - Gremio
- Roy Holder - Biondello
- Franco Zeffirelli - Director
- Franco Zeffirelli - Producer
- Richard Burton - Producer
- Elizabeth Taylor - Producer
- Paul Dehn - Screenwriter
- Franco Zeffirelli - Screenwriter
- Suso Cecchi D'Amico - Screenwriter
- Luigi Gervasi - Art Director
- Danilo Donati - Costume Designer
- Irene Sharaff - Costume Designer
- Peter Taylor - Editor
- Nino Rota - Composer (Music Score)
- Carlo Savina - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Giannetto De Rossi - Makeup













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