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Midsummer Nightmare

Midsummer Nightmare

1957
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9m

Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by our contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics in the time of Theseus. His sense of mischief gets the better of him again in his attempts to induce people to mix together socially once more.

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