Review of Edward II

this is a wonderful, fiery production with the most gruesome murder scene I've ever seen on public TV....I don't know how they handle it on stage but they pulled out all the stops here....a great early performance from McKellen that should be seen again (all the actors are great) I saw this when I was about 10 and that climactic scene has never left me...I wouldn't bet on anything this graphic being made for PBS nowadays...there was something about that time when anything went...to me this production was virtually as good as the Olivier Lear from Granada Television....certainly deserves to be rereleased along with so many of the old public television productions