
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.

Maggie Smith
Beatrice

Robert Stephens
Benedick

Frank Finlay
Dogberry

Michael Byrne
Claudio


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February 5, 1967
2h 10m
6.3
Alan Cooke
Robert Graves
3


BBC TV
GB

National Theatre
GB

Caroline John
Hero

Derek Jacobi
Don John

Ronald Pickup
Don Pedro

Denis DeMarne
A Lord

Gerald James
Leonato

Harry Lomax
Antonio
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