# Unusual cinematic versions of Shakespeare's plays? (potential spoilers)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-cinematic-versions-of-shakespeares-plays-potential-spoilers/327470 "2005-10-23T00:12:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-cinematic-versions-of-shakespeares-plays-potential-spoilers/327470/41 "2005-10-25T18:36:45Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> I hear [Rosencrantz & Guilderstern are Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/) has some Shakespeare connection.

Although one of my favourite films I’m not sure this fits in with the OP. ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead’ the film is based on ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead’ the play.

The play (first performed in the sixties I think) isn’t a ‘reworking’ of Hamlet - the extracts of Hamlet which intersect with Stoppard’s dialogue are 100% faithful - but more giving a bizarre hazy back story to two minor characters.

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-cinematic-versions-of-shakespeares-plays-potential-spoilers/327470/42 "2005-10-25T19:11:49Z")

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There’s _McLintock!_, the old West version of _Taming of the Shrew_. Stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.

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