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The Stratford Adventure

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Director
  
Morten Parker

Music director
  
Louis Applebaum

Duration
  

Country
  
Canada

6.8/10
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Genre
  
Documentary, Short

Writer
  
Gudrun Parker

Language
  
English

The Stratford Adventure movie poster

Cast
  
Alec Guinness

Release date
  
August 2, 1954 (1954-08-02)

Production
  
National Film Board of Canada

Similar movies
  
Warclouds in the Pacific (1941)

The stratford adventure


The Stratford Adventure is a 1954 National Film Board of Canada documentary film about the founding of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, directed by Morten Parker. It tells the story of what was to become North America’s premiere Shakespearean festival, on the banks of the Avon River in the small Ontario town of Stratford. It was named Film of the Year at the Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 27th Academy Awards.

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Cast

  • Michael Bates as Himself
  • Timothy Findley as Himself
  • Alec Guinness as Himself
  • Tyrone Guthrie as Himself
  • Irene Worth as Herself
  • References

    The Stratford Adventure Wikipedia
    The Stratford Adventure IMDb The Stratford Adventure themoviedb.org