RICHARD III - Laurence Olivier - Claire Bloom - John Gielgud - Part I - 1955 - Remastered - 4K_PI - video Dailymotion

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1955 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3.  The prologue of the film states that history without its legends would be "a dry matter indeed", implicitly admitting to the artistic licence that Shakespeare applied to the events of the time.   CAST  Richard III: Laurence Olivier  Lady Anne: Claire Bloom  George, Duke of Clarence: John Gielgud  Duke of Buckingham: Ralph Richardson  The Lord Hastings - Lord Chamberlain: Alec Clunes  King Edward IV of England: Hardwicke, Sir Cedric  Queen Elizabeth, wife to Edward IV: Mary Kerridge  Sir Robert Brackenbury: Andrew Cruickshank  Lord Rivers: Clive Morton  Lord Dorset: Douglas Wilmer  Lord Stanley: Laurence Naismith  George Stanley: Richard Bennett   Of Olivier's three Shakespeare films, Richard III had the longest gestation period: Olivier had created and been developing his vision of the character Richard since his portrayal for the Old Vic Theatre in 1944. After he had made Shakespeare films popular with Henry V and Hamlet, the choice of Richard III for his next adaptation was simple, as his Richard had been widely praised on stage.   Screenplay  Most of the dialogue is taken straight from the play, but Olivier also drew on the 18th century adaptations by Colley Cibber and David Garrick, including Cibber's line, "Off with his head. So much for Buckingham!". Like Cibber and Garrick, Olivier's film opens with material from the last scenes of Henry VI, Part 3, to introduce more clearly the situation at the beginning of the story.   The character of Queen Margaret is cut entirely, the role of the Duchess of York (Helen Haye) is significantly reduced, the role of Edward IV's wife Elizabeth is also reduced, and the execution of Clarence and other scenes are abridged.   Copyright - All rights reserved to their respective owners.   Read the unabridged plays online: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/plays   _______________________________   FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN - DONATIONS - Shakespeare Network Website and YouTube Channel:  Donate with PayPal or GoFundMe today:  https://shakespearenetwork.net/company/support-us/donate-now   _______________________________   Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net   Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.   IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/

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00:00:00You

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00:03:22Sit no man domine benedict home

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00:04:48Once more we sit in England's royal throne repurchased with the blood of enemies

00:05:00Oh

00:05:18Let me kiss my boy

00:05:24Young

00:05:25for thee

00:05:27Fine uncles and myself have in our armors watched the winter's night

00:05:31Went all foot in summer scalding heat that thou might be possessed to crown in peace

00:05:35Marlae buzz now shall reap the gain

00:05:40Terence Gloucester love my lovely queen

00:05:45Kiss your princely nephew brothers. Oh

00:05:49Beauty that I owe unto your majesty. I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe

00:05:57Thanks noble Clarence and that I love the tree from whence thou sprang witnessed a loving kiss I give the fruit

00:06:06Worthy brother

00:06:11Now what rest for that we spend the time with stately trials not for comic shows

00:06:16such as the 50 pleasure

00:06:21Sound drums and trumpets

00:06:23Farewell, sir. Annoy. I hear I hope begins our lasting joy

00:06:53I

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00:08:23You

00:08:29Now is the winter of our discontent

00:08:32made glorious summer

00:08:34by this son of

00:08:37York and

00:08:38All the clouds that lowered upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean

00:08:44bedded

00:08:46Now our our brows bound with victorious wreaths

00:08:49Our bruised arms hung up for monuments our

00:08:53Stern alarms changed to many meetings our dreadful marches to delightful measures

00:09:01grim visage to war

00:09:04Has smoothed his wrinkled front and now instead of mounting barbed steeds to fright the souls of fearful

00:09:12Adversaries he capers nimbly and a lady's chamber

00:09:16to the lascivious pleasing

00:09:19of a lute

00:09:23But I

00:09:25That am not shaped for sportive tricks nor made to court an amorous looking-glass

00:09:30I that am rudely stamped and want love's majesty to strut before a wanton ambling nymph. I

00:09:39That I'm curtailed of this fair proportion

00:09:42cheated of feature by dissembling nature

00:09:46Deformed

00:09:48Unfinished sent before my time into this breathing world scarce half made up and

00:09:54That so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me as I halt by them

00:10:02By

00:10:03Love forswore me in my mother's womb and for I should not deal in her soft laws

00:10:09She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe to shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub

00:10:16To heap an envious mountain on my back to shape my legs of an unequal size

00:10:21to disproportion me in every part

00:10:24like to a chaos or

00:10:27An unlinked bare foot that carries no impression like the dam

00:10:33Why I

00:10:36In this weak piping time of peace have no delight to pass away the time

00:10:42Unless to spy my shadow in the Sun and descant on mine own deformity

00:10:52Then

00:10:54Since this earth affords no joy to me

00:10:57But to command to check to all bear such as are of better person than myself

00:11:04I'll make my heaven to dream

00:11:09Upon the crown

00:11:12And

00:11:13While I live to account this world, but hell until this misshaped trunk that bears this head

00:11:19Be round impaled with a glorious

00:11:25Crown

00:11:27But yet I know not how to get the crown for many knives stand between me and home and

00:11:33I like one lost in a thorny wood that rends the thorns and is read with the thorns

00:11:39Seeking away and straying from the way not knowing how to find the open air but toiling desperately to find it out

00:11:47Torment myself to catch the English crowd and from that torment. I will free myself

00:12:01I

00:12:03Can smile and

00:12:06Murder while I smile and

00:12:09Cry content to that which grieves my heart and wet my cheeks with artificial tears and frame my face to all occasions

00:12:20I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall I'll play the orator as well as Nestor

00:12:27Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could and like a sign on take another Troy

00:12:33I can add colors to the chameleon change shapes with purchase for advantages and

00:12:43Can I do this and cannot get a crown

00:12:51Cut when it further off I'll tuck it down

00:13:03Meantime I'll marry with the lady

00:13:22Lamenting her lost love

00:13:26Edward Prince of Wales whom I some small time since

00:13:31Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewksbury a sweeter and a lovelier gentleman

00:13:36This spacious world cannot again afford and made her widow to a woeful bed that from his loins

00:13:43No, hopeful branch might spring

00:13:46To cross me from the golden time. I

00:13:50look for

00:14:00I

00:14:30Sit down, sit down, your Honourable Lord, whilst I, a while, obsequiously lament the

00:14:42pale ashes of the House of Lancaster, O bloodless remnant of that royal blood, be

00:15:12it lawful that I invocate thy ghost to hear the lamentations of poor Anne?

00:15:22Lo, in these windows that led forth thy life, I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.

00:15:34Cursed be the hand that made this fatal hoax! Cursed be the heart that had the heart to

00:15:45do it! Cursed be the blood that let this blood from hence! If ever he have wife, let her

00:15:56be made more miserable by the death of him, than I am made by my young lord, I, thee.

00:16:23Orus angelorum, Deus ipiae, et un glance d'amour parlante.

00:16:38Stand, you, that bear the corpse, and set it down.

00:16:44What black magician conjures up this fiend to stop devoted charitable deeds?

00:16:48Villain, set down the corpse, or by St. Paul I'll make a corpse of him that disobeys.

00:16:51My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.

00:16:53And a dove, stand down when I command, and bounce thy helmet high under my breast.

00:16:57Or by St. Paul, I'll cut it to my foot, and smear it on thee there, for thy boldness.

00:17:01What, are you treacherous? Are you all afraid? Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal.

00:17:06A mortal eye cannot endure the devil. Amongst thy dreadful minister of hell,

00:17:12thou hast but power over his mortal body. His soul thou canst not have, therefore be gone.

00:17:17Sweet saint, for charity be not so cursed.

00:17:20Foul devil, for God's sake, hence and trouble us not, if thou didst like to view thy heinous deeds.

00:17:26Behold, this pattern of thy butchery. Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity.

00:17:34Give out safe divine perfection of a woman, of these supposed crimes, to give me leave

00:17:38by circumstance, but to acquit myself. I did not kill your husband.

00:17:42Why, then, he is alive. He was gentle, mild, and virtuous.

00:17:47The better for the king of heaven that hath him, for he was fitter for that place than earth.

00:17:51No, I'm fit for any place but hell.

00:17:57Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.

00:18:01Subdansion.

00:18:04Your bedchamber.

00:18:17And now, good people, with your holy load.

00:18:47I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.

00:19:16But though I killed her husband and her father, the readiest way to make the witch amends

00:19:21is to become her husband and her father, the witch will I.

00:19:24Not all so much for love as for another secret close intent by marrying her, which I must reach unto.

00:19:34Yet I run before my horse to market. Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives, and reigns.

00:19:46When they are gone, then must I count my gains.

00:19:58Clarence, beware.

00:20:00Thou keep'st me from the night, but I will plan a pitchy day for thee,

00:20:09and I will buzz abroad such prophecies that Edward shall be fearful of his life,

00:20:15and then to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.

00:21:00Where is the duke of Clarence? At hand, my lord. He waits your highness' pleasure.

00:21:21Let him be arrayed and walk before us.

00:21:31Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, with lies well-steeled with weighty arguments,

00:21:41by drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, to set my brother Clarence and the king

00:21:48in deadly hate the one against the other.

00:21:51O parcel traitor, perjured and unjust, what have I done that seems disgracious in my mind?

00:22:00And if King Edward be as true and just as I am subtle, false, and treacherous,

00:22:06this day should Clarence closely be mewed up about a prophecy which says that

00:22:12G of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.

00:22:16But if I fail not in my deep intent, Clarence hath not another day to live.

00:22:20Not Clarence, but a quicksand of deceit. Away with him!

00:22:24He cannot live, I hope, and must not die till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven.

00:22:48Die'st thoughts down to my soul, George, Clarence comes.

00:22:58Brother, good day.

00:23:02What means this armoured guard that waits upon your grace?

00:23:04His majesty, tendering my person's safety, hath appointed this conduct to convey me to the tower.

00:23:10Upon what cause?

00:23:11Because my name is George.

00:23:14Lest, my lord, that fault is none of yours, he should for that commit your godfathers,

00:23:19like his majesty hath some intent that you shall be new christened in the tower.

00:23:25But what's the matter, Clarence, may I know?

00:23:27Yea, Richard, when I know, for I protest as yet I do not.

00:23:31But as I can learn, he hearkens after prophecies and dreams,

00:23:36and from the cross-row plucks the letter G, and says a wizard told him that by G

00:23:42his issue disinherited should be, and for my name of George begins with G,

00:23:47it follows in his thoughts that I am he.

00:23:50These, as I learn, and such like toys as these, have moved his highness to commit me now.

00:23:56Why, thus it is when men are ruled by women.

00:23:59It is not the king that sends you to the tower.

00:24:02Our upstart queen, his wife Clarence, tis she that tempers him to this extremity.

00:24:07Was it not she and that good man of worship, Antony Rivers,

00:24:10her brother there, that made him send Lord Hastings to the tower,

00:24:13from whence this present day he is delivered?

00:24:15We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe.

00:24:18I beseech your gracious words, pardon me.

00:24:21His majesty has straightly given in charge

00:24:22that no man shall have private conference at what degree soever.

00:24:25It's your brother.

00:24:25We know thy charge, Brackenbury, and will obey.

00:24:28We are the queen's adjects, and must obey.

00:24:30Brother Clarence, I will unto the king,

00:24:33and whatsoe'er you will employ me in, I will perform it to enfranchise you.

00:24:36Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood

00:24:39touches me deeper than you can imagine.

00:24:41I know it pleases neither of us well.

00:24:44Your imprisonment shall not be long.

00:24:46I will deliver you, or else lie for you.

00:24:50Meantime, have patience.

00:24:51I must perforce.

00:24:54Farewell.

00:25:07Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.

00:25:14Simple play, Clarence.

00:25:17I do love thee so, that I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,

00:25:20if heaven will take the present at our hands.

00:25:36Farewell.

00:26:06Gentle lady,

00:26:10is not the causer of the untimely death of your brave prince

00:26:13as blameful as the executioner?

00:26:15Art the cause, and most accursed effect.

00:26:20Your beauty was the cause of that effect.

00:26:24Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep,

00:26:28to undertake the death of all the world,

00:26:30so I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.

00:26:33If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide.

00:26:37These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.

00:26:40Did the brefty lady of thy husband

00:26:42did it to help thee to a better husband?

00:26:44His better does not breathe upon me.

00:26:46How do he lives that loves you better than he could?

00:26:49Where is he?

00:26:53Here.

00:27:01Why dost thou spit?

00:27:03At me.

00:27:05What, it were mortal poison for thy sake?

00:27:08Never came poison from so sweet a place.

00:27:10Never hung poison on a fowler toad?

00:27:18Out of my sight.

00:27:22Thou dost infect mine eye.

00:27:24Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.

00:27:28Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,

00:27:32shamed their aspects with store of childish drops.

00:27:36These eyes that never shed remorseful tear?

00:27:39No, when thy warlike father, like a child,

00:27:42told the sad story of my father's death,

00:27:45and twenty times made pause to sob and weep,

00:27:48that all the standers by had wet their cheeks

00:27:51like trees bedashed with rain.

00:27:54In that sad time my manly eyes did scorn and humble tear,

00:27:59and what these sorrows could not thence bring forth

00:28:01thy beauty had, and made them blind with weeping.

00:28:11I never sued to friend nor enemy.

00:28:14My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word,

00:28:16but now thy beauty is proposed my fee,

00:28:19my proud heart sues and prompts my tongue to speak.

00:28:24Teach not thy lips such scorn,

00:28:27for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

00:28:34If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,

00:28:38lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword,

00:28:41which, if thou pleas'd to hide in this true breast,

00:28:42and let the soul forth that adoreth thee,

00:28:44I lay it naked till the deadly stroke,

00:28:46and humbly beg the death upon thy knee.

00:28:48Do not pause, for I did kill Prince Edward,

00:28:51but t'was thy beauty that provoked it.

00:28:53Not as that was I that stabbed your husband,

00:28:55but was thy heavenly face that set me on.

00:29:12Take up the sword again, or take up me.

00:29:16Arise, dissembler, though I wish thy death,

00:29:22I will not be thy executioner.

00:29:25Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.

00:29:27I have already.

00:29:28That was in thy rage.

00:29:30Speak it again, and even with the word.

00:29:31This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love,

00:29:34shall for thy love kill a far truer love,

00:29:37and to both their deaths shall thou be accessed.

00:29:39But would I knew thy heart,

00:29:41and would I know thy love,

00:29:42and to both their deaths shall thou be accessed?

00:29:44But would I knew thy heart?

00:29:45Just take it in my tongue.

00:29:46I fear me both are false.

00:29:47Then never man was true.

00:29:49Well, well.

00:29:55Put up your sword.

00:29:58Say then my peace is made.

00:30:01That shalt thou know hereafter.

00:30:02But shall I live in hope?

00:30:04All men, I hope, live so.

00:30:07Art safe to wear this ring?

00:30:13To take is not to give.

00:30:19Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger,

00:30:25even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart,

00:30:30wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

00:30:37Bid me farewell.

00:30:42Farewell.

00:31:12Farewell.

00:31:42Was ever woman in this humour wooed?

00:31:51Was ever woman in this humour won?

00:32:02My dukedom to a widow's chastity,

00:32:04I do mistake my person all this while.

00:32:07Upon my life she finds, although I cannot,

00:32:09myself to be a marvellous proper man.

00:32:12I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,

00:32:20and entertain some score or two of tailors

00:32:22to study fashions to adorn my body.

00:32:26Since I am crept in favour with myself,

00:32:29I will maintain it to some little cost.

00:32:33Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,

00:32:38that I may see my shadow as I pass.

00:33:09Have patience, madam.

00:33:10There's no doubt his majesty will soon recover his accustomed health.

00:33:14In that you broke it ill, it makes him worse.

00:33:17Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,

00:33:20and cheer his grace with quick and merry words.

00:33:24If he were dead, what will be tied of me?

00:33:26No other harm but loss of such a lord.

00:33:28The loss of such a lord includes all harm, but...

00:33:31Heavens have blessed you with a goodly son

00:33:32to be your comforter when he is gone.

00:33:34No, he is young, and his minority is old.

00:33:37His minority is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,

00:33:40a man that loves not me, nor none of you.

00:33:45Is it concluded he shall be protector?

00:33:47It is intended, not concluded yet.

00:33:49But so it must be if the king miscarried.

00:34:00This is a special warrant for the Duke of Cairns.

00:34:02Some reordered to deliver him to execution at the hand of death.

00:34:32Wichita, God take King Edward to his mercy,

00:34:54and leave the world for me to bustle in.

00:35:32Why look'st your grace so heavily to me?

00:36:02O, I have passed a miserable night,

00:36:08so full of ugly sights, ghastly dreams.

00:36:14But as I am a Christian, faithful man,

00:36:16I would not spend another such a night,

00:36:19though it were to buy a world of happy days.

00:36:24So full of dismal terror was the time.

00:36:27What was this dream?

00:36:29I pray you, tell it me.

00:36:32I thought that I had broken from the tower,

00:36:35and was embarked to cross to Burgundy.

00:36:39And in my company my brother Gloucester,

00:36:44who from my cabin tempted me to walk upon the hatchet.

00:36:49Thence we looked towards England,

00:36:52and sighted up a thousand fearful times

00:36:55during the wars of York and Lancaster that had befallen us.

00:36:58As we paced along upon the giddy footing of the hatches,

00:37:02we thought that Gloucester stumbled,

00:37:06and in falling, struck me,

00:37:11but thought to stay him overboard

00:37:15into the tumbling billows of the main.

00:37:19Lord, Lord, I thought what pain it was to drown,

00:37:25what dreadful noise it was to hear.

00:37:28I thought I had water in my ears,

00:37:31ugly sights of death within mine eyes.

00:37:34I thought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,

00:37:37ten thousand men that the fishes gnawed upon,

00:37:42witches of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,

00:37:44inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,

00:37:48all scattered at the bottom of the sea.

00:37:51Had you such leisure in the time of death

00:37:53to gaze upon the secrets of the deep?

00:37:56I thought I had, and often did I strive to yield the ghost.

00:38:01Still, the envious flood kept in my soul,

00:38:04and would not let it forth to find the empty,

00:38:06vast and wandering air,

00:38:08but smothered it within my panting bulk,

00:38:11which almost burst to belch in the sea.

00:38:15I woke, or not, with this sort of agony.

00:38:18No, no, my dream was lengthened after life.

00:38:21Oh, then began the tempest to my soul.

00:38:26I crossed, methought, the melancholy flood

00:38:28with that grim ferryman that poets write of

00:38:31into the kingdom of perpetual night.

00:38:34The first that there did greet my stranger soul

00:38:37was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick,

00:38:40who cried aloud,

00:38:41What scourge, what perjury can this dark monarchy afford?

00:38:45False clemency!

00:38:47So he vanished,

00:38:50and came wandering by, shadowed like an angel,

00:38:54with bright hair dabbled with blood,

00:38:57and he shrieked out aloud,

00:39:00Clarence has come!

00:39:01False, fleeting, perjured Clarence

00:39:04has stabbed me in the field by tukespray!

00:39:06Seize on him, Furies!

00:39:07Take him to your torments!

00:39:09With that methought, a legion of foul fiends envied me,

00:39:13and appalled, they did my ears such hideous cries,

00:39:17that with the very noise I trembling waked.

00:39:23And for a season after,

00:39:26I could not believe but that I was in hell.

00:39:30Such terrible impressions,

00:39:33such terrible fear,

00:39:36such terrible terror,

00:39:37such terrible impression made my dream.

00:39:43No marvel, my lord, that it affrighted you.

00:39:46I promise you I am afraid to hear you tell it.

00:39:51O Brackenrae, I have done those things

00:39:53which now bear evidence against my soul,

00:39:57for Edward's sake.

00:40:00See how he requites me.

00:40:07O God, if my deep prayers will not appease thee,

00:40:12but thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,

00:40:16yet execute thy wrath on me alone.

00:40:20O spare my guiltless wife and my poor children.

00:40:27I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay with me.

00:40:30My soul is heavy, and I fear not.

00:40:34Soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.

00:40:40I will, my lord.

00:40:46God give you grace.

00:40:49Good rest.

00:40:50Good rest.

00:41:05Good time of day unto your royal grace.

00:41:09Oh, princely Buckingham, I kiss thy hand.

00:41:12Good morrow, Kate Smith.

00:41:13God make your grace as joyful as you have been.

00:41:15But now the duke of Buckingham and I

00:41:17have come from visiting his majesty.

00:41:19I have brought the order for the execution

00:41:21of the duke, your brother.

00:41:29What likelihood it is, amendment, lord,

00:41:33that who comes here?

00:41:49By heaven, I think there's no man secure but the queen's kindred

00:42:01and night-walking heddles that trudge betwixt the king

00:42:04and mistress Shaw.

00:42:06Heard you not what a humble suppliant Lord Hastings

00:42:09was to her for his delivery?

00:42:11I am but complaining to her deity.

00:42:12Got my lord Chamberlain this liberty.

00:42:14I tell you what, I think it is our way,

00:42:16if we will keep in favor with the king,

00:42:18to be her men and wear her livery,

00:42:20the jealous fading queen and mistress Shaw,

00:42:23since that our brother dubbed them gentle women

00:42:25on mighty gossips in our monarchy.

00:42:32I beseech your grace's worth to pardon me.

00:42:35His majesty has straightly given in charge

00:42:36that no man shall have private conference

00:42:38of what degree soever with your brother.

00:42:39Even so, and please your worship, Brackenbury,

00:42:42you may partake of anything we say.

00:42:44We speak no treason, man.

00:42:46We say the king is wise and virtuous.

00:42:48And his noble queen well struck in years,

00:42:50fair and not jealous.

00:42:53We say that Shaw's wife hath a pretty foot,

00:42:56a cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue,

00:43:00and that the queen's kindred are made gentle folks.

00:43:02How say you, sir? Can you deny all this?

00:43:03Would this, my lord, myself have nought to do?

00:43:05Nought to do with mistress Shaw?

00:43:07I tell thee, fellow, he that doth nought with her,

00:43:09excepting one, where best to do it secretly alone.

00:43:12What one, my lord?

00:43:12A husband, nay, wouldst thou betray me?

00:43:14I beseech your grace's birth to pardon me.

00:43:16And with all forbear all confidence

00:43:18of the duke of Paris.

00:43:19Yes, I cannot tell.

00:43:21The world is grown so bad that wrens may pray

00:43:23why eagles dare not perch.

00:43:25Since every jack became a gentleman,

00:43:26as many a gentle person made a jack.

00:43:28Well, who comes here?

00:43:30A new delivered hasty.

00:43:31Good time of day unto my gracious lord.

00:43:34As much unto my good lord Chamberlain.

00:43:36Well, are you welcome to this open air?

00:43:38I'll have your lordship brooked in prison.

00:43:40With patience, good Catesby, as prisoners must, my lord.

00:43:42Farewell, good Brackenbury.

00:43:44But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks

00:43:46that were the cause of my imprisonment.

00:43:48No doubt, no doubt.

00:43:49And so shall Clarence too.

00:43:50For they that were your enemies are his

00:43:52and have prevailed as much on him as you.

00:43:54More pitied that the eagles should be mute

00:43:57while kites and buzzards pray at liberty.

00:44:00What news abroad?

00:44:01No news so bad abroad as this at home.

00:44:03The king is sickly, weak, and melancholy,

00:44:05and his physicians fear him mightily.

00:44:07Now, by St. Paul, that news is bad indeed.

00:44:10He hath kept an evil diet long

00:44:12and overmuch consumed his royal person.

00:44:16It is very grievous to be thought about.

00:44:19Where is he, Catesby?

00:44:20In his bed?

00:44:21He is.

00:44:22God grant him!

00:44:27Did you confer with him?

00:44:28We did, my lord, if he desires to make atonement

00:44:30betwixt the duke of Gloucester and the brothers of the queen.

00:44:32And betwixt them and you, my good lord Chamberlain,

00:44:34and sent to warn you to his royal presence.

00:44:36They do me wrong, and I will not endure it.

00:44:41Who are they that complain unto the king

00:44:43that I pursue them stern and love them not?

00:44:46I knowly Paul, they love his grace but lightly,

00:44:47they fill his ears with such dissentious rumour.

00:44:50Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,

00:44:52smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,

00:44:55duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

00:44:58I must be held a rightful assailant.

00:44:59Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,

00:45:02but thus his simple truth must be abused

00:45:05by silken, sly, insinuating jacks.

00:45:07To whom, in all this presence, speaks your grace?

00:45:09To thee that hast nor honesty nor grace.

00:45:11When have I injured thee when done me wrong?

00:45:13Or thee, or thee, or any of the faction

00:45:15that plague upon you all.

00:45:16His royal grace, whom God preserve

00:45:18better than you would wish,

00:45:19cannot be quiet, scarce, or breathing quiet,

00:45:21but you must trouble him with lewd complaint.

00:45:23Come, come, we know your meaning, brother Gloucester.

00:45:26You envy my advancement of my friends.

00:45:28God grant we never may have need of you.

00:45:30Meantime, God grants that we have need of you.

00:45:33Our brother is imprisoned by your means,

00:45:35myself disgraced and the nobility held in contempt,

00:45:38while great promotions are daily given

00:45:40to ennoble those that scarce some two days since

00:45:42were worth a noble.

00:45:43By God, who raised me to this careful height

00:45:45from that contented hack which I enjoyed?

00:45:48I never did incense his majesty

00:45:49against the Duke of Clarence,

00:45:50but have been an earnest advocate to plead for him.

00:45:53My lord, you do me shameful injury falsely

00:45:55to draw me in these vile suspects.

00:45:57You may deny that you are not the cause

00:45:59of my lord Hastings's late imprisonment.

00:46:00She may, my lord, she may, lord Rivers.

00:46:02Why, who knows not so?

00:46:04She may do more, sir, than denying that.

00:46:06She may help you to many fair preferments,

00:46:08and then deny her aiding hand, that in,

00:46:09and lay those honors on your high dessert.

00:46:12What may she not?

00:46:13She may, I marry may she.

00:46:14What marry may she?

00:46:15What marry may she?

00:46:16Marry with the king,

00:46:17a bachelor and a handsome stripling too.

00:46:19I guess your grand dame had a worser match.

00:46:22My lord of lust, I have too long borne

00:46:25your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs.

00:46:27By heaven, I will equate his majesty

00:46:29with those gross taunts I often have endured.

00:46:31What?

00:46:32Threat you me with telling of the king?

00:46:34Tell him and spare not.

00:46:36Look what I have said,

00:46:36I will avouch in presence of the king.

00:46:38I dare not venture to be sent to the tower.

00:46:39Tis time to speak, my pains are quite forgot.

00:46:41I had rather be a country servant

00:46:43made than a great queen with this condition,

00:46:45to be thus beaten, scorned, and stormed at.

00:46:48Small joy have I being England's queen.

00:46:51Ere you were queen, I or your husband king,

00:46:53I was a pack horse in his great affairs,

00:46:55a weeder out of his proud adversaries,

00:46:57a liberal rewarder of his friends.

00:46:59To royalize his blood, I spilt mine own,

00:47:01in all which time you and your late husband,

00:47:04together with his son Dorset here,

00:47:06were factious for the house of Lancaster,

00:47:07and River, so were you.

00:47:08Let me put in your minds, if you forget,

00:47:10what you have been ere this, and what you are,

00:47:12with all what I have been and what I am.

00:47:14Poor parents did forsake his father-in-law Warwick,

00:47:16I, and forswore himself, which Jesus pardoned,

00:47:19to fight on Edward's party for the crown.

00:47:21And for his mead, poor lord, he is mewed up.

00:47:23I would to God my heart were flint like Edward's,

00:47:25or Edward's soft and pitiful like mine.

00:47:27I am too childish foolish for this world.

00:47:29My lord of Gloucester, in those busy days

00:47:32which here you urge to prove us enemies,

00:47:34we follow then our lord, our lawful king.

00:47:37So should we you if you should be our king.

00:47:40If I should be, I'd rather be a peddler,

00:47:42far be it from my heart the thought thereof.

00:47:45As little joy, my lord, as you suppose you should enjoy,

00:47:47were you this country's king.

00:47:50As little I enjoy being the queen thereof.

00:47:53Dispute not with him, he is a lunatic.

00:47:55Peace, Master Marquess, you are malaparte.

00:47:57Your fine new stamp of honour is scarce current.

00:47:59What doth he say, my lord of Stanley?

00:48:01Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.

00:48:04They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,

00:48:07and when they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

00:48:10Good counsel.

00:48:11Mary, learn it, Marquess, learn it.

00:48:13He touches you, my lord, as much as me.

00:48:15Aye, and much more.

00:48:19But I was born so high.

00:48:22I was too hot to do somebody good.

00:48:24That is too cold in thinking of it now.

00:48:27Mary, as for Clarence, he is well repaid.

00:48:29He is franked up to fretting for his pains.

00:48:31God pardon him, there are the cause thereof.

00:48:33A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion.

00:48:35To pray for them that have done wrong to us,

00:48:37so do I ever, being well advised.

00:48:39For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.

00:48:42Madam, His Majesty doth call for you,

00:48:43and for your grace, and you, my noble lord.

00:48:46Catesby, we come.

00:48:47Lords, will you go with us?

00:48:48Madam, we will attend your grace.

00:48:52Go you before, and I will follow you.

00:48:57But soft.

00:48:59Here come my executioners.

00:49:04And now, my hardy stout-resolved mates,

00:49:10are you not going to dispatch this thing?

00:49:12We are, my lord, and come to have the warrant

00:49:13that we may be admitted where he is.

00:49:15Well thought upon.

00:49:16I have it here about me.

00:49:24But, sirs, be sudden in the execution.

00:49:28Withal, abdure it.

00:49:30Do not hear him plead,

00:49:31for carence is well spoken,

00:49:33and perhaps may move your hearts to pity,

00:49:34if you mark him.

00:49:35Tush, fear not, my lord.

00:49:37We will not stand a prate.

00:49:38Talkers are no good doers.

00:49:40Be assured we come to use our hands,

00:49:42and not our tongues.

00:49:43Your eyes drop millstones

00:49:44when fool's eyes drop tears.

00:49:52I like you lads about your business straight.

00:49:53Go, go, dispatch.

00:49:54We will, my noble lord.

00:50:02In God's name, who are you, and how came you hither?

00:50:05I would speak with Clarence,

00:50:06and I came hither on my legs.

00:50:08Are you so brief?

00:50:09Oh, sir, tis better to be brief and tedious.

00:50:11Show him our commission, and talk no more.

00:50:20I am on this commandment

00:50:20to deliver the noble Duke of Clarence to your hands.

00:50:25I will not reason what is meant thereby,

00:50:26because I will be guiltless of meaning.

00:50:32Here is the key.

00:50:34There lies the duke, asleep.

00:50:38I to his majesty, and certify his grace,

00:50:40that thus I have resigned my charge to you.

00:50:41You may, sir.

00:50:42It is a point of wisdom.

00:50:43Fare you well.

00:50:48I know that charge, Brackenbury,

00:50:50and will take it.

00:51:02You may.

00:51:27Cloud him over the head with the else of thy weapon,

00:51:29and then chop him in the marm'sy, but in the next room.

00:51:32Aye, I guess I'll pop him.

00:51:42Where art thou, keeper?

00:51:48Give me a cup of wine.

00:51:59You shall have wine enough, my lord, enough.

00:53:00Now, why so?

00:53:05Now have I done a good day's work.

00:53:08You peers continue this unitedly?

00:53:12Well, my mother, I do crave your blessing.

00:53:17I every day expect a summons from my redeemer

00:53:20to redeem me hence.

00:53:23Now, in peace my soul shall part for heaven,

00:53:27since I have left my friends peace on earth.

00:53:31Rivers, Hastings, take each other's hand.

00:53:37Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.

00:53:41By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate,

00:53:45and with my hand I see my true heart's love.

00:53:48So thrive I, as I truly swear the like.

00:53:51Take heed, you dullard, not before your king,

00:53:54lest he that is the supreme king of kings

00:53:57confound your hidden falsehood

00:53:59and award either of you to be the other's end.

00:54:01So prosper I, as I swear perfect love.

00:54:04And I, as I love Hastings with my heart.

00:54:08Madam, yourself and I are exempt in this.

00:54:12Nor you, young Dorset, Buckingham, nor you.

00:54:16You have been factious one against the other.

00:54:20Wife, love Lord Hastings.

00:54:25Let him kiss your hand.

00:54:28And what you do, do it unfailingly.

00:54:31Fair Hastings, I will never more remember our former hatred.

00:54:35So thrive I and mine.

00:54:39Dorset, embrace him.

00:54:43Hastings, love Lord Marquess.

00:54:49This interchange of love, I hear protest upon my part,

00:54:54shall be inviolable.

00:54:56And so swear I, my Lord.

00:54:58Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league

00:55:02with thy embracement, my wife's allies,

00:55:05and make me happy in your unity.

00:55:07Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate on you or yours,

00:55:11God punish me with hate in those where I expect most love,

00:55:16when I have most need to employ a friend

00:55:19and most assured that he is a friend,

00:55:21deep, hollow, treacherous and full of guile be he unto me.

00:55:26This do I beg of God when I am cold in zeal to you or yours.

00:55:33A pleasing, cordial, princely Buckingham,

00:55:36is this thy vow unto my sickly heart?

00:55:40There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here

00:55:44to make the perfect period of this peace.

00:55:47And in good time, here comes the noble Duke.

00:55:51Good morrow to my sovereign King and Queen,

00:55:54and princely peers, a happy time of day.

00:55:57Happy indeed, as we have spent the day,

00:55:59for we have done deeds of charity,

00:56:02made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,

00:56:04between these swelling, wrong, insensitive peers.

00:56:06Of blessed labour, my most sovereign Duke.

00:56:10Among this princely heap,

00:56:12if any here by false intelligence or wrong surmise

00:56:16hold me a foe, if I unwittingly or in my rage

00:56:20have ought committed that is hardly borne

00:56:22by any in this presence I desire to reconcile me

00:56:25to his friendly peace,

00:56:27it is death to me to be a denmity.

00:56:29I hate it and desire all good men's love.

00:56:33First, madam, I entreat true peace of view,

00:56:36which you have promised me.

00:56:39Which I will purchase with my beauteous service.

00:56:43Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,

00:56:44if ever any grudge were lodged between us,

00:56:47of you, Lord Rivers, and Lord Gray,

00:56:51of you, of you, my noble Marquess,

00:56:54Lord of Dorset, that all without dessert

00:56:57have frowned on me.

00:56:58Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen,

00:57:02indeed of all.

00:57:03I do not know that Englishman alive

00:57:05with whom my soul is any jotted odds

00:57:07more than the infant that is born tonight.

00:57:11I thank my God for my humility.

00:57:13A holy day shall this be kept hereafter.

00:57:16I would to God all stripes were well compounded.

00:57:20My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty

00:57:23to take our brother Clarence to your grace.

00:57:25Why, madam, have I offered love for this

00:57:28to be so flouted in this royal presence?

00:57:31Who knows not that the gentle duke is dead?

00:57:35You do him injury to scorn his corpse.

00:57:43Who knows not he is dead?

00:57:45Who knows he is?

00:57:46On seeing heaven, what a world is this?

00:57:58Look I so pained, Lord Dorset, as the rest.

00:58:01Ay, my good lord.

00:58:02For no one in this presence but his red colour

00:58:05hath forsook his cheeks.

00:58:08Is Clarence dead?

00:58:10The order was reversed.

00:58:11But he, poor soul, by your first order died,

00:58:14and that a winged mercury did bear.

00:58:16Some tardy cripple bear the countermand

00:58:19that came to lag to see him buried.

00:58:24Who sued to me for him?

00:58:28Who in my rage,

00:58:30who in my rage,

00:58:32kneeled at my feet and bade me be advised?

00:58:35Who spake of brotherhood?

00:58:37Who spake of love?

00:58:39Who told me how the poor sword

00:58:40forsake the mighty Warwick and did fight for me?

00:58:44Who told me in the field by Tewkesbury,

00:58:48when Warwick had me down, he rescued me,

00:58:50and said, dear brother, live and be a king.

00:58:55Who told me when we both lay on the ground

00:58:58when we both lay on the ground,

00:58:59frozen almost to death,

00:59:01how he did laugh even in his own garments

00:59:04and give himself all thin and naked

00:59:06to the numb cold night?

00:59:10All this from my remembrance,

00:59:12brutish, wroth, sinfully put.

00:59:15And not a man of you had so much grace

00:59:17to put it in my mind.

00:59:19Oh, God!

00:59:23Fear, that justice will take hold on me

00:59:27and you will mind who you are for this.

00:59:33Come, Hastings, help him by bed.

00:59:38Oh, poor Terence.

00:59:43This is the fruit of rashness.

00:59:46Marked you not how that the guilty kindred

00:59:48of the queen looked pale

00:59:49when they did hear of Terence's death?

00:59:50Oh, my good Lord Stanley,

00:59:51they did urge it still unto the king.

00:59:53God will revenge it.

00:59:54Oh, who shall hinder me to wail a week

01:00:03to chide my fortune and torment myself?

01:00:07Oh, for my husband, for my dear Lord Edward.

01:00:12Comfort, dear madam.

01:00:13God is much displeased that you take

01:00:14with unthankfulness his doing, madam.

01:00:17But think you like a careful mother

01:00:18of the young prince of Wales?

01:00:20Send straight for him, letting the crowd.

01:00:22In him your comfort lives.

01:00:24Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave

01:00:28and plant your joys in living Edward's throne, sister.

01:00:33Have comfort.

01:00:34All of us have cause to wail the dimming

01:00:36of our shining star,

01:00:38but none may help our harms by wailing them.

01:00:41Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy.

01:00:43I did not see your grace.

01:00:44Most humbly on my knee, I crave your blessing.

01:00:47God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind.

01:00:49Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

01:00:52Amen.

01:00:53And make me die a good old man.

01:00:55That is the butt end of a mother's blessing.

01:00:57I marvel that her grace did leave it out.

01:01:00You cloud-dipped princes and heart-sorrowing peers

01:01:03that bear this mutual heavy load of moan

01:01:06now cheer each other in each other's love.

01:01:09The broken rank of your high-swollen hearts,

01:01:11but lately splinted, knit, and joined together

01:01:14must gently be preserved, cherished, and kept.

01:01:18Beseem it good that with some little train

01:01:22forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetched

01:01:24hither to London to be crowned our king.

01:01:27Why, with some little train, my lord of Buckingham.

01:01:30Very, my lord, lest by a multitude

01:01:31the new-heeled wound of malice should break out,

01:01:34as well the fear of harm, as harm apparent in my opinion,

01:01:37ought to be prevented.

01:01:38I hope the king made peace with all of us,

01:01:41and the compact is firm and true in me.

01:01:43And so in me, and so, I think, in all.

01:01:46Yet, since it is but green,

01:01:48it should be put to no apparent likelihood of breach,

01:01:51which, happily, by much company, might be urged.

01:01:55Therefore, I say with noble Buckingham

01:01:57that it is meet, so few should fetch the prince.

01:02:00And so say I.

01:02:01Then be it so.

01:02:02And go we to determine who they shall be

01:02:04that straits shall boast to not know.

01:02:06Madam, and you, my mother,

01:02:08will you go to give your censures of this business?

01:02:10With all our hearts.

01:02:16All our hearts.

01:02:45My lord.

01:02:47Whoever journeys to the prince, for God's sake,

01:02:49let not us two stay behind.

01:02:52For by the way, I'll sort occasion

01:02:55as index to the story we late talked on,

01:02:59to part the queen's proud kindred from the prince.

01:03:07My other self.

01:03:09My council's consistory.

01:03:12My oracle.

01:03:13My prophet.

01:03:14My dear cousin, I, like a child,

01:03:18will go by thy direction, towards Ludlow, then,

01:03:21for we'll not stay behind.

01:03:44Last night, I hear they lay at Northampton.

01:04:08At Stoney Stratford will they be tonight.

01:04:10Tomorrow or next day, they will be here.

01:04:15I long with all my heart to see the prince.

01:04:18I hope he has much grown since last I saw him.

01:04:21But I hear no.

01:04:22They say my son of York

01:04:23hath almost overtaken him in his growth.

01:04:25Ay, mother, but I would not have it so.

01:04:27Ay, my young grandson, it is good to grow.

01:04:31Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper,

01:04:35my uncle Rivers talked how I did grow more than my brother.

01:04:39I quote from my uncle Gloucester,

01:04:41small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

01:04:48Mary, they say my uncle grew so fast

01:04:50that he could gnaw crust at two hours old.

01:04:53Twas full two years, sir, I could get it too.

01:04:56A powerless boy, go to, you are too shrewd.

01:04:58Good madam, be not angry with the child.

01:05:01Pictures have ears.

01:05:11Where is the queen?

01:05:30Where is her majesty?

01:05:31She is above, my lord.

01:05:35Here comes your kinsman, Marcus Dorset.

01:05:37What news, Lord Marcus?

01:05:38Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.

01:05:46How fares the prince?

01:05:48Well, madam, and in health?

01:05:50What is thy news then?

01:05:54Madam, your brothers, Lord Rivers and Lord Grey

01:05:57are sent to Pumfret, prisoners.

01:06:03Who hath committed them?

01:06:05The mighty dukes Gloucester and Buckingham.

01:06:09For what offence?

01:06:14Some of all I can, I have disclosed.

01:06:18Why or for what our kinsmen are committed

01:06:21is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.

01:06:25I mean, I see the downfall of our house.

01:06:30The tiger now hath seized the gentle height.

01:06:39Accursed and unquiet, o'erranged and dazed,

01:06:44how many of you have mine eyes beheld?

01:06:49My husband lost his life to get the crown,

01:06:52and often up and down my sons were tossed

01:06:56for me to joy or weep their gain and loss.

01:07:00Blood against blood, self against self.

01:07:04Let me die to look on death no more.

01:07:16Come, come, my boy.

01:07:19We will do same to you.

01:07:22Madam, farewell.

01:07:23I'll go with you.

01:07:24You have no cause.

01:07:25My gracious lady, go and hither,

01:07:27bear your treasure and your goods.

01:07:28For my part, I'll resign unto your grace the seal I keep,

01:07:32and so be tied to me as well I tender you

01:07:34and all of yours.

01:07:35Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.

RICHARD III - Laurence Olivier - Claire Bloom - John Gielgud - Part I - 1955 - Remastered - 4K_PI

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