Richard III (1995 film)
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| Directed by | Richard Loncraine |
| Produced by |
Stephen Bayly Lisa Katselas Paré |
| Written by |
William Shakespeare (play) Ian McKellen Richard Loncraine |
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| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
| Edited by | Paul Green |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £6,000,000 |
Richard III is a 1995 British drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood, and Dominic West. The film sets the play in a fictional fascist version of 1930s Britain.
In 1930s England, a bloody civil war ends with the Lancastrian King Henry VI and his son Prince Edward murdered by Richard, Duke of Gloucester of the rival House of York. Richard's elder brother Edward, Duke of York becomes King Edward IV, while the Lancastrian heir, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, is exiled in France.
Hungry for power, Richard is determined to make himself King, and pits King Edward against his brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned in the Tower of London. Meanwhile, Richard deceives and marries Prince Edward's widow Lady Anne Neville.
Queen Elizabeth intercedes on Clarence's behalf and Edward IV spares his life. However, after sowing doubt and casting suspicion on the Queen and her brother Lord Rivers, Richard commissions James Tyrrell to execute Clarence, allegedly in compliance with the King's death warrant, under the pretext that the king's stay of execution was delivered too late.
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