Romeo and Juliet

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. 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.

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  Virginia McKenna

  Juliet Capulet
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  Tony Britton

  Romeo Montague
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  Flora Robson

  Nurse
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  Laurence Payne

  Mercutio
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  Richard Wordsworth

  Tybalt
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  Harcourt Williams

  Friar Laurence