Okay, it's well documented (a contradiction in terms surely) that next to nothing is known about Shakespeare the man but to cover his life in EIGHT minutes! As it turns out the most interesting thing by far about this PR for the soon-to-be-released Romeo and Juliet is the name Jacques Tourneur on the credits and you have to hand it to him for allowing it to remain there. Even in Dickens' time England/London was down and dirty, sleazy and sinful but THIS England/London ... remember the way Venice looked in Top Hat, or the ship's engine room in Shall We Dance? Well that's how MGM saw Stratford and London. Pristine. Legoland. A lovely touch is the name over the arch of a snow-white bridge: Blackfriars. Wanna know about Shakespeare? Go to the Globe in London and buy a coaster from the souvenir shop. It'll tell you more than this eight-minute movie in two or three sentences.
Review of Master Will Shakespeare
