Movies
January, 1972
In his first movie venture, Hugh Hefner has staked a multimillion-dollar budget and the reputation of his fledgling production company on Roman Polanski's vision of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Previous screen versions of this dark tale--which has traditionally been regarded as unplayable--have fared indifferently at the box office, but this one (adapted by Polanski in collaboration with Kenneth Tynan) should break the jinx. Keeping about half of the original text, and using voiceover techniques--very...
