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Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
William Shakespeare
Renato Castellani
Casts & Crew
Laurence Harvey
Susan Shentall
Flora Robson
Norman Wooland
Mervyn Johns
John Gielgud
Bill Travers
Sebastian Cabot
Lydia Sherwood
Ubaldo Zollo
Enzo Fiermonte
Giulio Garbinetto
Nietta Zocchi
Ennio Flaiano
Thomas Nicholls
Mario Meniconi
Pietro Capanna
Luciano Bodi
Dagmar Josipovitch
Elio Vittorini
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