Overview
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
Cast
- Maggie Smith as Beatrice
- Robert Stephens as Benedick
- Frank Finlay as Dogberry
- Michael Byrne as Claudio
- Caroline John as Hero
- Derek Jacobi as Don John
- Ronald Pickup as Don Pedro
- Denis DeMarne as A Lord
- Gerald James as Leonato
- Harry Lomax as Antonio