"the most definitive Shakespearean work in terms of any show-biz media" - Variety
Performed live on British television in 1953, this lean, low-budget version of William Shakespeare's classic condenses Peter Brook's stage production (starring Orson Welles in the title role) to 76 powerful minutes. The play retains its majesty, and Welles (a life-long devotee and actor/director of the Bard's work) is "every inch a king" as Lear. Micheál MacLiammóir (Iago in Welles’ Othello) appears as Poor Tom.