Editing Henry V (1944 film) (section)

===Box office===
According to ''Kinematograph Weekly'' the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1945 Britain was ''[[The Seventh Veil]]'', with "runners up" being (in release order), ''[[Madonna of the Seven Moons]]'', ''[[Old Acquaintance]]'', ''[[Frenchman's Creek (film)|Frenchman's Creek]]'', ''[[Mrs. Parkington]]'', ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace (film)|Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'', ''[[A Song to Remember]]'', ''[[Since You Went Away]]'', ''[[Here Come the Waves]]'', ''[[Tonight and Every Night]]'', ''[[Hollywood Canteen (film)|Hollywood Canteen]]'', ''[[They Were Sisters]]'', ''[[The Princess and the Pirate]]'', ''[[The Affairs of Susan|The Adventures of Susan]]'', ''[[National Velvet (film)|National Velvet]]'', ''[[Mr. Skeffington]]'', ''[[I Live in Grosvenor Square]]'', ''[[Nob Hill (film)|Nob Hill]]'', ''[[Perfect Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'', ''[[The Valley of Decision]]'', ''[[Conflict (1945 film)|Conflict]]'' and ''[[Duffy's Tavern (film)|Duffy's Tavern]]''. British "runners up" were ''They Were Sisters'', ''I Live in Grosvenor Square'', ''Perfect Strangers'', ''Madonna of the Seven Moons'', ''[[Waterloo Road (film)|Waterloo Road]]'', ''[[Blithe Spirit (1945 film)|Blithe Spirit]]'', ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'', ''[[I'll Be Your Sweetheart]]'', ''[[Dead of Night]]'', ''[[Waltz Time (1945 film)|Waltz Time]]'' and ''Henry V''.<ref>{{cite book|page=232|title=Blackout: reinventing women for wartime British cinema|last=Lant|first= Antonia|year=1991 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref>

Previous efforts to put Shakespeare on the screen included [[Douglas Fairbanks]] and [[Mary Pickford]]'s 1929 ''[[The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)|The Taming of the Shrew]];'' [[Max Reinhardt]]'s 1935 ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' for Warner Bros; a British film adaptation of ''[[As You Like It (1936 film)|As You Like It]]'' starring Olivier and [[Elisabeth Bergner]] and scored by [[William Walton]]; and MGM's 1936 ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'', directed by [[George Cukor]] and starring [[Norma Shearer]] and [[Leslie Howard]]. They had all misfired. According to TCM.com "After screening ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1936), Olivier realized that the standard Hollywood camera style, which included moving in for a close-up at climactic moments, didn't work for Shakespeare. In one scene, the close up had forced Norma Shearer to whisper one of her most passionate lines. Instead, he decided to film long speeches starting in close up and then moving the camera back as the actor's intensity grew. He also decided to treat the soliloquies not as direct addresses to the audience, but as interior monologues".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/77778/henry-v#articles-reviews |title=Henry V (1944) |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=2019-10-12}}</ref>

The film earned over $1 million in rentals in the US.<ref name=Variety>{{cite web |title=$8,500,000 in British B.O. in U.S.; That's 4 Times Last Year's Take |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety164-1946-11#page/n122/mode/1up/search/8%2C500%2C000 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=20 November 1946 |pages=3 |access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref> However, due to its high production cost and Entertainment Tax it did not go into profit for Rank until 1949.<ref name="Macnab 1993 191">{{cite book|first=Geoffrey|last=Macnab|title=J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, England|date=1993|isbn= 978-0415072724|page=191}}</ref> It earned United Artists a profit of $1.62 million.<ref name="sheldon"/> In 2007, ''Military History'' magazine listed this production 75th among "The 100 Greatest War Movies".<ref>"The 100 Greatest War Movies" special issue, page 31.</ref>