The Lincoln Center Macbeth is a filmed stage production full of energy; it has a few minor problems of picture and sound quality resulting from this format, but the dialogue is clear, and the acting is good throughout.
The witches, one male and two female, sing most of their lines.
The Macbeths are an attractive, younger couple, full of ambition even before the witches' prophecies. Philip Anglim's Macbeth is slightly pompous and has shifty brown eyes, which sometimes appear unfocused, making him seem mentally unbalanced.
Kenneth Campbell's performance as Macduff is particularly strong.
At the end of the play, when Macduff fights Macbeth, Anglim, full of regret for the slaughter of Macduff's family, refuses to draw his sword to fight; Campbell, however, kills him anyway, afterward placing the cross he wears on Macbeth's chest.