Scenes

Features

Closed Caption; New high-definition digital transfer, including newly discovered footage from the original theatrical release, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen TVs; Audio commentary by playwright and stage director Russell Lees and John Wilders, former governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired; RSDL dual-layer edition for optimal image quality; 1966 BBC interview with Laurence Olivier hosted by renowned theater critic Kenneth Tynan; Gallery of on-set and production stills and posters, featuring excerpts from Olivier's autobiography "On Acting"; 12-minute TV trailer, including footage of Olivier, producer Alexander Korda, production designer Roger Furse, and other crew members at work in Shepperton Studios; Original theatrical trailer; Essay by film historian Bruce Eder

Scene Index

Side #1 -- Disc One
1. Opening Credits and Preamble [2:36]
2. Coronation of Edward IV [5:29]
3. "Now Is the Winter..." [5:10]
4. Gentle Lady Anne [5:58]
5. "I'll Have Her..." [1:17]
6. "Plots Had I Laid" [2:30]
7. Simple, Plain Clarence [2:44]
8. "Why Dost Thou Spit at Me?" [6:04]
9. "Was Ever Woman in This Humor Wooed?" [1:16]
10. Death Warrant for Clarence [2:34]
11. Clarence's Dream [5:19]
12. A Reprieve [3:34]
13. Deciding on an Heir [4:31]
14. Dream Come True [3:50]
15. King Edward's Bedside [2:57]
16. Richard's Good Spirits [7:44]
17. "To Sanctuary" [4:40]
18. Prince Edward's Arrival [4:04]
19. Heir to the Throne [3:06]
20. "Go We Unto the Tower" [3:01]
21. Enlisting Catesby [2:13]
22. Plots Afoot [6:29]
23. Council of the Crown [8:07]
24. Lord Mayor Takes a Ride [2:00]
25. Buckingham's Concoction [2:22]
26. "Two Props of Virtue" [6:51]
27. Richard's Royal Queen [3:54]
28. Coronation of Richard III [3:05]
29. Securing the Crown [8:02]
30. "Thus Lay the Gentle Babes" [2:31]
31. Stanley Consorts With Buckingham [:33]
32. News of Richmond [4:39]
33. Bosworth Field [2:29]
34. Richmond [2:49]
35. Eve of Battle [3:36]
36. Ghosts of Victims Past [5:14]
37. Battle of Bosworth Field [7:20]
38. "My Kingdom for a Horse" [2:56]
39. Stanley Crowns Richmond [4:05]
1. Shakespeare's Richard III [2:36]
2. Family Politics [5:29]
3. Olivier's Richard [5:10]
4. Seduction of Lady Anne [5:58]
5. Cinematic Writing [1:17]
6. The Vice Character [2:30]
7. Gielgud and Olivier [2:44]
8. Use of Verse [6:04]
9. Poetic Devices [1:16]
10. Connection to Henry VI [2:34]
11. Sir John Gielgud [5:19]
12. Past Relations [3:34]
13. Shakespeare on Screen [4:31]
14. "Humor of the Murderers" [3:50]
15. Wars of the Roses [2:57]
16. Absence of Queen Margaret [7:44]
17. Legend of Richard III [4:40]
18. The History Play [4:04]
19. Machiavelli [3:06]
20. The Good Uncle [3:01]
21. Richardson as Buckingham [2:13]
22. "Super-True" [6:29]
23. Power Politics [8:07]
24. "Old Boy Network of Evil" [2:00]
25. Richardson and Olivier [2:22]
26. Play Within a Play [6:51]
27. Art of Rhetoric [3:54]
28. Turning Point [3:05]
29. Editing Shakespeare [8:02]
30. Death of the Princes [2:31]
31. "A Woeful Buckingham" [:33]
32. Bringing in Richmond [4:39]
33. The Tragedy [2:29]
34. Emphasis on the Welsh [2:49]
35. "Basic Human Instinct" [3:36]
36. One Unfortunate Cut [5:14]
37. Brando and Olivier [7:20]
38. "History Doesn't Repeat Itself" [2:56]
39. Olivier's Message [4:05]
Side #2 -- Disc Two
1. "My Boy Isn't Bad, Is He?" [8:11]
2. "Burning Ambition" [8:54]
3. Hamlet [8:25]
4. Richard III [8:15]
5. Othello [7:58]
6. The Entertainer [6:00]