Romeo and Juliet (1954 film) Romeo and Juliet (1954 film) Romeo and Juliet is a 1954 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was directed by Renato Castellani and stars Laurence Harvey as Romeo, Susan Shentall as Juliet, Flora Robson as the Nurse, Mervyn Johns as Friar Laurence, Bill Travers as Benvolio, Sebastian Cabot as Lord Capulet, Ubaldo Zollo as Mercutio, Enzo Fiermonte as Tybalt and John Gielgud as the Chorus. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was named the best foreign film by the National Board of Review, which also named Castellani as best
Romeo and Juliet on screen to that of Romeo and Juliet. The 2007 anime "Romeo x Juliet" is a fantasy retelling of the famed play. In it, Juliet's family were rulers of a floating island nation called Neo Verona before being killed by the Montagues, forcing her to hide in a theater troupe owned by a fictional version of William Shakespeare. The play has also inspired two major Bollywood romantic dramas: Mansoor Khan's "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak" (1988) starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Ram-Leela" (2013) starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. "Tanna" (2015), the depiction of a "Romeo and Juliet"-like