Romeo and Juliet / Romeo E Giulietta (Franco Zeffirelli) (1968)

[RBBrittain]

Amazon.it preorder (17 July 2013, database pending). Just a few days after its Swedish & Japanese releases, but definitely good to see Paramount giving it an early release in Zeffirelli's own country.

As I explained when I started the Japanese release thread in the Asian forum:

Originally Posted by RBBrittain

This one is rather special to me because it was the second movie I ever saw in a theater -- on an early-'80's high-school field trip (while studying the play in English class), ironically, to the same Little Rock theater where I saw my first movie, Disney's Million Dollar Duck (1970), over a decade earlier. And when Olivia Hussey turned over in bed, it was my first experience with on-screen nudity. (She was only 15 when she made the movie; would that make it child porn today? )