The film became the highest grossing Shakespeare film for years, and the album was also a tremendous hit.

And it has joined forces with Kenneth Branagh for a projected series of Shakespeare films.

I don't want to make Shakespeare films for a small intellectual coterie or a group of my friends.

This video offers remarkably high-quality restorations of the earliest surviving Shakespeare films.

The latter two were both, in their time, the highest-grossing Shakespeare film ever.

The film opened to rave reviews; it was the first widely successful Shakespeare film, and was considered a work of art.

And now there are no fewer than five Shakespeare films in the works.

Of all Olivier's Shakespeare films, Othello is the one with the least music.

It is, so far, the only Shakespeare film in which all the principals were nominated for Oscars.

Olivier's Henry V is widely considered the first Shakespeare film to be both artistically and commercially successful.