joe macbeth
ella macbeth is more eager for joe to take over the restaurant than joe is .
ella macbeth scrubs her hands repeatedly. the restaurant serves as the backdrop to a television cooking show starring joe macbeth .
chef joe macbeth shows his perfectionism in minding the smallest details of food preparation .
duncan eats a dessert prepared by joe macbeth. joe gives a signal to billy, and billy rushes out of the kitchen. duncan flirts with ella macbeth .
joe macbeth waits for the sanitation workers, the ones who foretold his future. from their predictions, joe and ella macbeth concocted the plan to kill duncan .
joe macbeth cuts his hand on broken glass. his wife pays off two thugs .
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duncan takes joe macbeth aside and asks about his son malcolm and his performance in the kitchen .
joe macbeth instructs his kitchen staff to make the best meal of the owner' s life .
joe macbeth loses his cool at breakfast, and everyone stares at him. his behavior is not what they recognize. they appear suspicious of joe. joe thinks he sees billy staring at him .
joe macbeth tells his wife about the predictions made by the three strange men. they told him the restaurant would belong to joe, and not to malcolm. ella macbeth eggs her husband on .
billy reminds joe macbeth that respect is the first rule of the kitchen. joe apologizes. both men laugh, but the tension is thick between them .
after the restaurant closes, chef joe macbeth leaves, giving instructions to the rest of the staff to clean up. joe and a friend visit a pub .
duncan announces to macbeth and billy that the restaurant earned three stars from michelin. duncan praises joe macbeth and entrusts his son' s training to him .
ella macbeth goads her husband into be discontented about duncan' s fame. joe macbeth listens to his wife belittle him for being kind instead of aggressive .
police announce descriptions of two murder suspects. the police visit joe macbeth and treat him like a suspect .
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macbeth, it seems, was killed not by the macbeths, but by another man whom they hired. someone questions joe macbeth about duncan' s murder .
with the headline: screen:' joe macbeth'; title is reminiscent but it' s not bard .
joe macbeth thinks he sees blood on his mouth and hands. he removes duncan' s photograph from the kitchen .
when customers ask to see the chef, duncan goes to them instead of joe macbeth, the true chef. in the preparation of food, only perfection will satisfy macbeth .
the kitchen crew eyes joe macbeth suspiciously. he is not his usual, upbeat self. he sees blood boiling up in the pan in front of him. joe questions himself and his identity .
joe macbeth wants to know more about his future. he hears that he will not be harmed until pigs fly. joe is uneasy to learn that billy and his wife will have another baby .
in a breakfast meeting with his kitchen staff, joe macbeth resumes his old self as a good boss. people ask where billy is. joe tells them he is on the way to breakfast .
joe macbeth tells johnny to
take care of peter macduff .
ella macbeth begins to live in the past, remembering the untimely birth of her baby, who lived only 3 days .
joe and ella macbeth discuss the hard work he has put into the restaurant. he is responsible for the three - star rating .
macbeth sees his wife covered in blood as she showers. or did he? joe verbally abuses malcolm, duncan' s son .
malcolm is now in charge of the restaurant, operating in the same respectful, professional manner joe macbeth once did. malcolm uses joe' s recipes on television and credits them to his father, duncan .
joe macbeth and billy talk about duncan' s habit of taking all the credit for the restaurant' s 3 - star rated cuisine .
ella macbeth cannot see the illusions joe sees. he is getting more and more rattled, while she appears to be sinking into despair .
joe learns where billy will be in the early morning. he kisses his hand, perhaps a judas kiss. joe contacts a killer for hire .
joe macbeth sends everyone home, and he puts on a pair of thick, rubber gloves. he pulls a large knife from the knife rack .
visibly upset, joe macbeth tells his wife what he did - - and did not do. she tells him what to do with the knife and gloves .
after killing duncan, the macbeths wash their hands thoroughly. joe cannot sleep. ella macbeth gets up in the night to wash her hands again and again .
a modernized retelling of
macbeth
set in 1970s suburban pennsylvania. joe mcbeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife .
mrs. macbeth inspects a table setting, measuring the distance between two knives .
james sees this adaptation of macbeth as
an examination of descent and psychosis
.
nearly 40 years ago my wife (then my girlfriend) watched joe macbeth on the late late show. we were both english majors with a love of shakespeare and this ...
) takes advantage of joe and is quite happy to have him working all hours of the day .
joe macbeth believes he is immortal. a police helicopter lands on the building, making the prediction true that pigs will fly and land on his head. peter macduff rushes him and stabs him .
i' ve seen many, many classic movies, but not joe macbeth, until today. i would rate this movie 3. 25 stars, higher than maltin' s rating. paul ...
the kitchen staff works hard to feed the restaurant customers, yet they still play pranks on one another. chef joe macbeth is an exacting teacher and expects his staff to be perfect at what they do .
on the bike trail with his son, billy stops to answer his phone. when his son comes upon him, billy is dead. a hired killer reports to joe macbeth that the deed is done .
peter learns that his wife and two children have been murdered. malcolm tells joe that his wife is dead .
shakespeare (more - or - less) in modern gangster setting. lily macbeth pushes her husband joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new
kingpin
himself. success is short - lived, however, as he confronts lennie, a mobster whose father and wife are joe' s murder victims .
a policeman hears a discarded cell phone ring from inside a trash can. ella answers questions from the press, but makes the mistake of using the same words joe macbeth did when he talked to the police .
chef joe macbeth shows his staff how to cut up a pig' s head. showing that there is no waste, he lays out ears, cheek, tongue, and brain of the pig' s head .
a knife - wielding joe macbeth approaches duncan' s hotel room door. from the street the noise of a crowd rises. a man screams. did it come from duncan' s room or from the street ?
like the witches of shakespeare' s
macbeth ,
three sanitation workers hatch a plot in this opening scene. shakespeare - told: macbeth is a modern adaptation of william shakespeare' s classic tragedy .
cast: paul douglas (joe macbeth), ruth roman (lily macbeth), grégoire aslan (the duke), sid james (banky), bonar colleano (lennie), minerva pious (rosie), harry green (big dutch), kay callard (ruth), beresford egan (sandwich board man) .
in preparation for his role in macbeth, james spent a few days at le gavroche, in london .
at her vanity table, ella macbeth appears to be going mad. she smears lipstick over her face .
james describes his character, joe macbeth, as
very extreme... i think the thing that keeps a chef going is pride and ego, which is what i drew on a lot for joe – pride, ego and respect. a lot of it is respect and that was kind of what made him kill ,
he says .
duncan completely exploits joe. he' s everything that could be wrong with tv chefs. he certainly isn' t
chef macbeth' s temper grows worse as dinner preparations continue. he has little patience with his kitchen crew .
after an enigmatic visit from the police, joe ends up laughing. the police don' t confront him about the crime .
after seeing the finished version of macbeth, james is full of praise for his co - star, keeley hawes .
joe macbeth does not want to go back into duncan' s room and to finish the job of killing him. ella takes the knife and goes into duncan' s room. when she emerges, she disposes of the knife and gloves she wore .
in a modern retelling of william shakespeare' s
scottish play ,
three strange garbage collectors make a glorious prediction for head chef joe macbeth' s future. with his wife ella goading him on, macbeth makes plans to take ownership of the high - class glaswegian restaurant where they are both employed. the first step: murder owner and celebrity - chef duncan ...
peter macduff arrives at the dark restaurant kitchen and grabs a knife from the rack. he finds joe with a knife in his hand .
top chef joe macbeth is passionate about food - it' s almost a religion with him. his dedication to cooking has made duncan docherty' s restaurant one of the best in britain. but when duncan gets all the credit, joe' s jealousy - encouraged by the prophecies of three mysterious binmen, and by his ambitious wife ella - leads him to take a desperate step that ultimately destroys him .
ella macbeth makes several mysterious calls. she wipes a cell phone clean after a call and places it in the trash bin .
m. j. frankovich has labored the obvious in producing .
joe macbeth ,
a modern gangster film patterned after the shakespeare tragedy. it opened yesterday in loew' s eighty - third street, 116th street and olympia theatres. view full article in timesmachine »
billy (banquo character) catches a kitchen worker doing something wrong. joe verbally attacks him for taking over his responsibilities. billy stomps out .
joe macbeth is far removed from the famous shakespearean character, but there is an analogy between this modern gangster story and the bard’s classic play. although made in britain, the film has an american setting. it is expensively mounted, expertly staged and directed with a keen sense of tension .
macbeth attacks a customer for complaining about the food. all the customers file out. after that, ella continues to wash her hands .
joe macbeth is far removed from the famous shakespearean character, but there is an analogy between this modern gangster story and the bard' s classic play. although made in britain, the film has an american setting. it is expensively mounted, expertly staged and directed with a keen sense of tension .
ella macbeth walks a high wall at night, rubbing her hands together as if to get rid of stains. she falls to her death .
but this movie has been really blindsided by its own premise. a mafia
macbeth
probably couldn' t work well, unless it went stylish and crazy enough to make us temporarily forget the source. this isn' t the first time
macbeth
has been set in a gangland milieu: writer phillip yordan' s gangland update
joe macbeth ,
with paul douglas and ruth roman, was filmed in 1955 by ken hughes. but there' s a fatal flaw in the notion: shakespeare' s play is about the dark usurpation of proper authority; in this mobster milieu, nothing is legitimate .
joe macbeth is far removed from the famous shakespearean character, but there is an analogy between this modern gangster story and the bard’s classic play. although made in britain, the film has an american setting. it is expensively mounted, expertly staged and directed with a keen sense of tension. the plot is basically a battle [ … ]
comparisons to shakespeare' s macbeth don' t pull this one out of the gutter. production values were good and i admire paul douglas and ruth ...
james is a fan of shakespeare, particularly of macbeth, romeo and juliet and anthony and cleopatra. he also likes the idea of modern adaptations of old classics .
duncan docherty, restaurant owner, invites a group to celebrate winning a 3 - star michelin rating. ella macbeth sends a bottle of wine to duncan' s table .
the chef and billy (banquo character) come up against three workingmen in an alley. they predict that joe will become owner of the restaurant and that billy' s sons will inherit after that .
, who is brilliant ,
says james .
he really takes the mick. he' s happy for joe to do all the work while he takes all the credit for it. he' s a charlatan .
renowned restaurateur duncan docherty has built a gastronomic empire, but his sous chef and maître d’ are cooking up treachery. in this modern retelling of shakespeare’s tragedy, screenwriter peter moffat sets the action in a 3 - star london restaurant with a kitchen full of flashing blades and bloody business. james mcavoy plays joe macbeth, revered by his staff and relied on by duncan—even to groom his son, malcolm, to take over the operation. keeley hawes plays macbeth’s wife, ella, the charming, scheming hostess. vincent regan is duncan and richard armitage is peter macduff, the avenging headwaiter. produced by bbc northern ireland and horsebridge productions. a part of the series shakespeare - told. (87 minutes )
she becomes really harmful and ambitious and she can' t bear to see joe being overlooked. he can' t back down. he' s got such an ego and can' t bear to have his balls chopped off by her .
paradoxically, it' s the fidelity of
men of respect
( rated r for language, sex, violence) to
macbeth' s
plot that finally makes it somewhat sterile, uninvolving and definitely predictable. macbeth / mikey battaglia' s fate begins to seem not psychological or even cosmic, but simply literary. not a victim of blood, witchery, madness or the convulsions of history, he simply had the misfortune to stumble into the wrong rewrite .
it' s also the first time, i think, that macbeth has been set in a kitchen. i don' t know what shakespeare would have made of it. though i think he might have found it interesting !
, he announced that real - life married couple john ireland and joanne dru would be his lord and lady macbeth but when cameras began turning on the soundstages of shepperton studios in the united kingdom the names above the title were paul douglas and ruth roman .
joe' s relationship with ella is a really harmful and dysfunctional one. but at the same time, as james says ,
it' s very loving .
it' s quite sexy, kinky and quite self - perpetuating as well, because they spur each other on a lot ,
he explains .
here, writer - director william reilly retells
macbeth
in exactly the sort of background coppola created for
godfather i and ii
: the discreet, glowering, quietly menacing world of top - ranking mafiosi caught in a maze of betrayal, their souls and faces swallowed in darkness .
as the macbeth surrogate, mikey battaglia, john turturro seizes the screen with his usual full - bore intensity, and katherine borowitz is an appropriately sleek and hard - shell lady macbeth, a. k. a. ruthie battaglia. there are bits of the other performances - - lilia skala' s weird sister, rod steiger' s duncan / d' amico, peter boyle' s macduff / duffy - - that seem just on the verge of igniting. if you walked in on any individual scene of
men of respect
and watched five minutes, you might think it an accomplished or promising film. in a way, you' d be right; it works in small pieces .
i think it' s more a study of how evil we can become. it' s not about being caught or evading the police, or about how they [ joe and ella ] got away with it. it' s more to do with how they don' t get away with it psychologically or morally, in their own heads; that' s what' s interesting about it .
der film zeigt eine männerdomäne, die sich selbst zugrunde richtet, und die verschwendung von weiblichem potenzial, ansonsten bleibt er aber recht oberflächlich, ohne überzeugende atmosphäre und banalisiert die geschichte sogar. er zollt dem originaltext in schönen details tribut (
the knife knows where to go, joe. just follow it .
), hätte aber insgesamt ein wesentlich abgründigerer film noir sein können (welles' version ist mehr film noir als diese), zum beispiel über paranoia. das hätte doch in die zeit gepasst .
the entire conceit falls apart early on, almost as soon, in fact, as the film really gets into the machinery of
macbeth' s
plot. when steiger' s duncan / d' amico shows up at the battaglia digs and the thunder starts crashing, mikey battaglia pulls in his lip and pulls out his knife, and lady ruthie begins to flip out; it' s the first of many moments where
men of respect' s
shadow - drenched pastiche begins to veer head on into the deadpan, uncontrollably comic .
in brian de palma and oliver stone' s 1983
scarface
- - an update of the 1932 hawks - hecht gangster classic - - a lot of ingenuity seemed to be wasted simply in updating scenes from the old movie. there, as here, writer and director might better have used the old story as a springboard, gone in new directions, invented freely outside the original plot as kurosawa did with
macbeth
in
throne of blood
or
king lear
in
ran
- - or even as laurents, bernstein and sondheim did with
romeo and juliet
in
west side story .
the second in the series of b. b. c.' s
shakespeare re - told
this version of
macbeth
is a huge disappointment after
much ado about nothing
last week. the writers succeeded in complicating this most straight forward of shakespearian tragedies. the dark mood of the original is preserved but the pace is slow and the plot tedious. decent performances from the leading characters do little to lift this dull production out of the dramatic mire. transferring shakespeare' s great portrayal of power and ambition to a twenty - first century restaurant was always going to be problematical, but to be honest, this is a botched effort that should have been aborted half way through the project. interesting updating of the witches to bin men on a dump though .
joe mcbeth is a hard - working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife pat, who has a significant edge in the brains department. pat is convinced she could do a lot better with the place than their boss norm duncan is doing, so she works up a plan to usurp norm, convincing mac to rob the restaurant' s safe and then murder norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the police off their trail. though two stoners and a would - be fortune teller warn mac that bad luck awaits him, he gathers his courage and goes through with his wife' s scheme. at first, things seem to have gone just as pat hoped, and after norm' s sons sell the restaurant to the mcbeths (they pay for it with the money they stole from norm), business takes off. but vegetarian police detective mcduff is convinced there' s foul play at the new center of the fast food universe, and when the mcbeths fear that fry cook banco knows more than he' s letting on, mac takes charge in the plotting department ...
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unimaginativly directed but expertly acted update of the shakespeare tragedy. douglas is fine as always as the tormented and henpecked central character but it is really ruth roman who stands out from the rest of the cast. she literally oozes malevolence from every pore in a great study of a remorseless, to a point, rapacious viper. this is a hard to find item that is worth a view. grab the chance if you can .
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adaptations of the plays of william shakespeare were often discussed by the major studios after the advent of sound but rarely carried out. max reinhardt' s all - star mounting of
( 1935) was a failure for warner brothers (an academy award nomination for best picture notwithstanding) and soured producers on the bard' s cinematic potential. it took a visionary such as orson welles to attempt the challenge but his quickie
( 1965), a condensation of five historical shakespeare plays, neither of which found a receptive audience. lauded over three hundred years after his lifetime as one of the greatest english language writers of all time, shakespeare could not get arrested in hollywood .
( 1955), which laid the events of shakespeare' s infamous tragedy within the context of the american underworld and recast its protagonist as a chicago mobster, was an attempt to soften the culture shock by updating the material and allowing the principals to speak in unembroidered, modern day speech. in 1947, independent producer eugene frenke bought the property as a potential united artists release, to star robert cummings. two years later, the property passed to theater owner - turned - film backer james nasser, who touted lew ayres and shelley winters as its stars. by the time producer mike frankovich seized control of
pushing fifty, burly paul douglas was an awkward fit for shakespeare' s ambitious young scottish general. douglas had originated the role of gangster harry brock in the original broadway production of garson kanin' s
but allowed the part to pass to broderick crawford for columbia' s big screen adaptation. douglas' size and working man mien vaguely channeled the ghost of chicago' s most famous racketeer, al capone, but in fact the pennsylvania - born actor played more cops than crooks. backing douglas' play was ruth roman, who had risen from uncredited bits in
( 1954). career gains to one side, the dark - eyed beauty made more of an impression with the public when she and her four year - old son survived the sinking of the italian ocean liner andrea doria, which had collided with the swedish ship ms stockholm in a fog bank off of nantucket in july 1956 .
was jobbing british director ken hughes. known as a reliable craftsman, able to squeeze the maximum yield out of the most miserly budget, hughes specialized in crime films and mysteries early in his career but his enduring legacy rests on the strength of the discomfiting kiddie classic
' s supporting cast is proud in such local talent as sid james, grégoire aslan, and kay callard but buried on the call sheet in the role of the first murderer is canadian actor al mulock. at one time a theatrical impresario in his native ontario, mulock emigrated to england and later italy and spain, where he earned pop culture immortality with his iconic appearances in sergio leone' s
( 1968) prior to his death, a presumed suicide, in 1968 .
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the classic shakespearean tale is set inside a gangster'''' s story .
interviewed about the part, the 26 - year - old - glaswegian admits ,
i like cooking but i don' t think i could be a chef. everyone from the ground up does terrible hours, whether you' ve just walked in off the street and you' ve got no experience, to whether you' re the head chef. you can work 14 or 15 - hour days. it' s really, really intense .
it was so fantastic and the food tasted so good. i' m dying to have a proper meal there. i only picked bits while i was in the kitchen. it was fantastic, though. michel roux jr. put me through my paces and his head chef sorted me out ,
he says .
i think they do work ,
he says .
shakespeare' s stories are still very strong. he structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche .
it' s not a thriller, or a murder mystery, even though all these people die ,
he explains .
none of it is overly realistic .
you don' t see a lot of this, though. you see them after everything has changed. you see them develop and they become very different and end up being very bad for each other. ella becomes an absolute maniac !
he laughs .
james has played shakespeare before, having been romeo in a stage version of romeo and juliet. he explains why he prefers the stage ,
whether they like it or not, the audience you' re telling the story to are there in front of you and when you make a film, the audience are not even present; and, secondly, the world will have changed by the time they see it .
and also the reason i prefer the theatre is because you tell a story from beginning to end and never stop. there' s none of this' let' s take three months to tell the story' that really in the end gets told in an hour or two hours. but i love filming as well .
i thought keeley was absolutely great. there were a lot of good performances in it - i really liked it ,
he says .
it' s weird because it' s all murders, but it' s not a film and it' s not a murder mystery .
i loved filming all the scenes in the kitchen - that was the best - because we all got to be quite butch !
he laughs .
the plot is basically a battle for supremacy, waged by paul douglas, in the title role, and egged on by his determined bride (ruth roman) .
the lead role makes substantial demands on douglas, but he emerges with honorable distinction. his characterization changes naturally from the confident henchman to the domineering and frightened bully. roman has the looks and talent to give a genuine veneer to her performance as his wife .
crew: (b & w) extract of a review from 1955. running time: 90 min .
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a chef and his restaurant - hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high - class glaswegian restaurant .
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' pigs will fly' is sung by the bin men to the tune of' colonel bogey' .
: the name. nobody knows where it came from. it just appeared one day in the 17th century. it' s like ...
: it' s like god... parted the heavens, reached down to us and went :
there you are, people. squid
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men of respect
( amc century 14) - - in which a mad mafia triggerman starts a murderous climb to power - - seems an attempt to crossbreed the literary themes and plots of shakespeare with the cinematic forms of coppola' s
godfather
series, part of what coppola himself was trying to do in
the godfather part iii .
if that' s so, it suggests that such attempts work in inverse proportion to their self - consciousness. talent abounds in
men of respect ,
but it seems misdirected, defused, wasted .
it' s an ambitious film, sometimes quite well - acted - - especially by dennis farina as the banquo surrogate ,
bankie como
- - and interestingly shot, in a scraped, dingy palette of dark colors by cinematographer bobby bukowski. writer - director william reilly has talent: his language has vitality and he gets a little of that tight - lipped, dangerous elegance coppola infused into his upper - ranking mafiosi - - the stylized profanity, the bemused cynicism, the masks of deportment .
a central city films / arthur goldblatt productions presentation released by columbia pictures. director - screenplay william reilly. producer ephraim horowitz. executive producers arthur goldblatt, eric kitain. cinematographer bobby bukowski. editor elizabeth kling. costumes susan lyall. music misha segal. production design william barclay. art director caty maxey. sound wendy hedin. with rod steiger, lilia skala, steven wright, stanley tucci. running time: 1 hour, 53 minutes .
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a gangster' s wife drives him to kill as she pushes him to the top .
ken hughes' film takes shakespeare as a starting point and sets it in new york, with imported american actors paul douglas and ruth roman as the pair overcome by greed and ambition .
despite a low budget and a shepoertob setting, the leads are good, there is a tense noir feel and although a few liberties have been taken with the source (the duncan figure is stabbed while having a late night swim, the macduff figure becomes the son of banquo aka banky, the witches are depleted to one crank clairvoyant), the reworking is done well .
the macbeths experience changes in their thinking and behavior after the murder. ella cannot sleep with the lights off, and she continues to wash her hands .
peter macduff tells duncan' s son malcolm that he suspects his father' s murder was planned .
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jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
when pat mcbeth chops her hand off, she falls left of her position directly in front of her severed hand. later she is shown lying on the floor. her body is facing the correct position, but she is far to the right of the point of view of the previous scene .
] i' m so embarassed in front of you... i know you' re the only one who really cared about me .
: i was just thinking how... i' ve never heard anyone say something so... wrong. if i were you ...
: let me get that for you... i would take pride in the fact that i could actually dress myself on a daily basis .
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joe macbeth is a 1955 british – american crime drama , directed by ken hughes and starring paul douglas , ruth roman and bonar colleano . it is a modern retelling of shakespeare 's macbeth , set in a 1930s american criminal underworld . the film 's plot closely follows that of shakespeare 's original play . a similar adaptation , men of respect , was released in 1990 , starring john turturro , rod steiger and dennis farina . 
joe macbeth is a 1955 british – american crime drama, directed by ken hughes and starring paul douglas, ruth roman and bonar colleano. it is a modern retelling of shakespeare's macbeth, set in a 1930s american criminal underworld. the film's plot closely follows that of shakespeare's original play. a similar adaptation, men of respect, was released in 1990, starring john turturro, rod steiger and dennis farina.
joe macbeth is a 1955 british – american crime drama, directed by ken hughes and starring paul douglas, ruth roman and bonar colleano. it is a modern retelling of shakespeare's macbeth, set in a 1930s american criminal underworld. the film's plot closely follows that of shakespeare's original play. a similar adaptation, men of respect, was released in 1990, starring john turturro, rod steiger and dennis farina.