A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare’s comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused…
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Max Reinhardt, Russell Saunders, Sherry Shourds, William Dieterle
Actors: Dewey Robinson, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Grant Mitchell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ian Hunter, Jean Muir, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Alexander, Verree Teasdale