Comment on Richard III: Laurence Olivier’s melodramatic baddie is seriously limp

Richard III: Laurence Olivier’s melodramatic baddie is seriously limp

Hunchbacked, conniving child-killer or slandered victim of Tudor propaganda? This 1955 film is an exaggeration of a distortion that gets us no closer to the truthRichard III (1955)Director: Laurence OlivierEntertainment grade: B+History grade: D–Richard III is one of the most notorious kings in English history. His popularity has revived since his long-lost remains were discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.Here now begins one of the most famous, and at the same time, the most infamous of the legends that are attached to the crown of England.

 

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