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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
HOLY MACAROLEYS!
I didn't know it was even available. The absolute best filmed version of Taming Of The Shrew was done in 1976 by the San Francisco Repetory Theater. It starred Marc Singer, much maligned for movies like The Beastmaster, but brilliant on stage in this production.
And it's available on DVD! I just ordered my copy! 
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There was also a version done with John Cleese as Petruchio, which is the only version I've seen. (I've seen bits of the Burton/Taylor film but not all the way through.) Probably was a BBC production that was shown here on PBS. They ran a whole series of Shakespeare plays that were originally produced for the BBC.
Don't know if it was the same series - probably not - but I still remember seeing Derek Jacoby as Hamlet and Ian Holm as Lear on PBS.
One of the US cable channels (USA? A&E? can't remember) also did a version of "King Lear" starring Patrick Stewart... but they set it in Texas in the 1840s.
Of course IMO the ultimate adaptation of Lear is Kurosawa's "Ran."