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Laurence Olivier's Macbeth film project rises from the dead 50 years on by Steven Morris

English lecturer stumbles across 'nonexistent' screenplay in British Library for film scuppered by financial problemsFor more than 50 years it has been one of the great questions of British cinema: what would the celebrated actor and director Laurence Olivier have done with Shakespeare's Macbeth if he had managed to make a big-screen version?Olivier, who was bitterly disappointed when his attempt to film the play was…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PM on January 25, 2013

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