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Shakespeare Wallah AKA Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
About a traveling theatre group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but are unable to compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.Director: James Ivory
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Extras:About the Film (text)
More Facts about Shakespeare Wallah (text)
About Merchant Ivory (text)
Principal Cast & Crew (text)
Cast Biographies (text)
Insight into Shakespeare Wallah, an excerpt from the documentary The Wandering Company (6:15)
Theatrical trailer (0:53)
Bonus trailers:
- A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
- Quartet
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Also available in the 6-disc set Merchant Ivory in India, which contains: Bombay Talkie; The Courtesans of Bombay; The Deceivers; Heat and Dust; In Custody; Shakespeare Wallah.
Also available in the 20-disc set The Merchant Ivory Collection, which contains: Autobiography Of A Princess; The Ballad Of The Sad Café; Bombay Talkie; The Bostonians; The Courtesans Of Bombay; The Deceivers; The Europeans; Heat And Dust; The Householder; Howards End; Hullabaloo Over Georgie And Bonnie's Pictures; In Custody; Jane Austen In Manhattan; Maurice; The Perfect Murder; The Proprietor; Quartet; Roseland; Savages; Shakespeare Wallah. -
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Extras:Conversation with the Filmmakers, part of a new series of interviews with Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal (24:12)
The Delhi Way, a documentary short feature by director James Ivory about the city of Delhi (44:54)
Introduction to The Delhi Way, by director James Ivory (4:37)
Theatrical trailer (0:57) -
Subtitles:English HoH
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 1.0
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:10-page fold-out booklet, featuring two essays by author Robert Emmet Long.
Part of The Merchant Ivory Collection, produced in association with The Criterion Collection. -
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OVERALL: R1
The US release for the interviews and The Delhi Way documentary.
Note that the full version of The Wandering Company (excerpted on the R0 edition) appears on the R1 SE of -
CUTS:
- R0 United Kingdom- Odyssey Video - No cuts
- R1 The Merchant Ivory Collection America- Home Vision Entertainment - No cuts (122:03 NTSC).
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