--- title: 'Joe MacBeth (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Ken Hughes' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/joe-macbeth-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048230/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Joe MacBeth (1955) 1955 · 90 min · Drama · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Joe MacBeth is a 1955 British gangster film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Grégoire Aslan and Sid James. It was written by Hughes and Philip Yordan, and 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ken Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-hughes) - **Original Music Composer:** [Trevor Duncan](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-duncan) - **Director of Photography:** [Basil Emmott](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-emmott) ## Cast - [Paul Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-douglas) as Macbeth - [Robert Arden](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-arden) as Ross - [Paul Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-douglas-2) - [Beresford Egan](https://cinepixo.com/people/beresford-egan) as Sandwich-board man - [Kay Callard](https://cinepixo.com/people/kay-callard) as Ruth - [Minerva Pious](https://cinepixo.com/people/minerva-pious) as Rosie - [Al Mulock](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-mulock) as First assassin - [Walter Crisham](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-crisham) as Angus - [Sid James](https://cinepixo.com/people/sid-james) as Banky - [Nicholas Stuart](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-stuart) as Duffy - [Ruth Roman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-roman) as Lady Macbeth - [Bonar Colleano](https://cinepixo.com/people/bonar-colleano) as Lennox - [Grégoire Aslan](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregoire-aslan) as Duca, a.k.a. "The Duke" - [Bill Nagy](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-nagy) as Marty - [George Margo](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-margo) as Second Assassin ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/joe-macbeth-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q6211056); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.