]With brilliant forethought, Zeffirelli gambled by filling he two starring lead roles with two young unknown and fresh-faced eenage actors: 15-year old Olivia Hussey as the stunningly beautiful, dark-haired Juliet (just a few years older than Shakespeare""s Juliet - a "fortnight and odd days" from 14), and 17-year old, slender and blue-eyed Leonard Whiting as Romeo...is that you, darling?""better let it ring""If a woman answers...hang on for dear life!""Murder calling in 3-D!" (various 3-D re-releases)Hitchcock was known for many other sequences in his films involving knives, scissors, blades and other sharp implements (often ending up in someone""s back or body), such as inBlackmail (1929),The 39 Steps (1935),Sabotage (1936),Spellbound (1945),The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956),North by Northwest (1959),Psycho (1960), andTorn Curtain (1966), but the stabbing sequence in this film was arguably the most famous - or at the least a close second oPsycho (1960).It was remade as a science-fiction film, writer/director Peter Hyams""Outland (1981)with Sean Connery, with the adapted plot transferred to interstellar space (and ridiculed as "High Moon").Let the others of my sex tie the knot around their necks, I""d prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman in my life.Walter: But that""s the idea.Phyllis: The other day, a casing line snapped and caught the foreman.He""s in the hospital with a broken back.Walter: That""s bad.Phyllis: It""s got me jittery just thinking about it.Suppose something like that happened to my husband.Walter: It could.Phyllis: Well, don""t you think he ought to have accident insurance?Walter: Hmm, mmm.Phyllis: What kind of insurance could he have?Walter: Oh, enough to cover doctors and hospital bills, say a hundred and twenty-five a week cash benefit, and you rate around a fifty housand capital sum.