As an aspiring Language Arts Teacher, this film version is a bit dark for contemporary students. Nobody is faulting Orson Welles who was a truly on par with British legend, Lord Laurence Olivier, because he means well but he never captures Macbeth as others have. Maybe it's because Orson is just too brilliant as a director, producer, actor, and writer to be doing this role. Yes, Macbeth is challenging but Orson is well above adequate. Jeannette Nolan is one of my favorite Lady Macbeths of all time and that includes Dame Judi Dench and Francesca Annis in recent productions. This Macbeth was too dark meaning setting as well. I just felt that gave a darkness which was naturally there. Of course, standards were different in 1948 but I think the witches could have been more realistic as well. They just seemed to be glossed over.