..prey to passing prowlers, poverty and policemen...with only ten cents in his pocket...John Lloyd Sullivan, the Calef of Comedy departed Hollywood at four o""clock this morning."In a classic farcical, slapstick, briskly sped-up, cross-country chase scene, after he is picked up by a thirteen-year-old hot-rodder (Robert Winkler) who is wearing a crash helmet and is "studyin"" o be a whippet tanker.Two other films of Shakespeare""s story, versions of he Prokofiev ballet, were:Paul Czinner""s balletic version ofRomeo and Juliet (1966, UK)with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and Renato Castellani""s 1954 British-Italian versionRomeo and Juliet (1954, It.Plot SynopsisThe film has two sections - beginning with a fairly brief prologue in Venice.It opens with a realistic view of a back porch in a dark, back alley with brick walls, a garbage pail by a door, and a dog sniffing at the trash.In ruling Master Joh Fredersen""s (Alfred Abel) executive office, busy male secretarial assistants feverishly work at their desks, taking dictation notes and watching a board of changing numbers.