Product: Romeo and Juliet [Region 2] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
An excellent adaptation
Good acting, nicely done adaptation of the classic play. The actor playing Romeo was quite good, but Olivia Hussey was far and away the best thing about this movie, I remembered her years after watching this in Junior High. Certainly less eye-catching and frenetic than the Baz Luhrman version, but potentially easier to watch and less distracting from the actual text of the play (not to cast aspersions on the Luhrman verson). Also, potentially a useful tool for getting preteen and teen boys to watch a Shakespearean play, as Olivia Hussey's... *ahem* assets are not inconsiderable.