The Taming of the Shrew
Grumio (Cyril Cusack) and Hortensio (Victor Spinetti) both long to wed the same beautiful young woman, Bianca. However, her father announces that she may not marry until her mean spirited sister Katarina is wed.
20 June 1930, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
6 August 1927, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
August 21, 1943 in Merano, Italy
10 November 1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
14 June 1938, Campobasso, Molise, Italy
2 July 1906, York, England, UK
13 May 1927, Rome, Lazio, Italy
March 4, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
23 April 1935, Rome, Lazio, Italy
January 19, 1944 in Monfalcone, Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
12 December 1929, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
March 31, 1943 in Catania, Sicily, Italy
February 12, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
1891 in Naples, Campania, Italy
19 May 1918, Campobasso, Molise, Italy
July 12, 1931 in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
1922 in Naples, Campania, Italy
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
26 November 1910, Durban, Natal, South Africa
14 August 1934, Nîmes, Gard, France
19 March 1901, Naples, Campania, Italy
27 March 1942, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
May 24, 2003
High-spirited whoop-de-doo Shakespeare, not too adulterated, not too precious, and geared slyly towards an audience who may have read about this kind of marriage on the showbiz gossip pages.
July 01, 2008
Comedy is sustained in witty wedding ceremony.
December 21, 2006
Fine Zeffirelli version with Taylor and Burton in good form.
April 21, 2002
...ranks among the finest screen adaptations of a Shakespeare play ever made.
September 27, 2005
Not necessarily the best telling, but still wickedly attractive.
July 01, 2008
As for Mr. Zeffirelli's settings and the elaborate Renaissance costumes, they look very rich and mellow in the misty pastel colors that are used. But they, too, like Nino Rota's music, tend to monotony.
July 01, 2008
More debased Shakespeare from Franco Zeffirelli.
February 19, 2004
Riotous fun.
January 01, 2000
When [Zeffirelli] sticks to the play and to his actor's skills, the film comes alive. Sadly that was not as often as it should have been.
October 10, 2007
Zeffirelli can't bring himself quite to the realm of radical Shakespeare. However, the film is a great vehicle for the two most famous stars of its era.
January 01, 2000
Despite its blatant lack of political correctness, there is considerable fun to be had in this film.
July 01, 2008
Purists will doubtless be upset by this flick, but the bawdy humor is engaging, the photography and musical score work just fine, and the most famous married couple in the world at that time are really having a ball here.
