Hamlet

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Cast

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

as Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost

Basil Sydney

Basil Sydney

as Claudius - The King

Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie

as Gertrude - The Queen

Norman Wooland

Norman Wooland

as Horatio - His Friend

Felix Aylmer

Felix Aylmer

as Polonius - Lord Chamberlain

Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons

as Ophelia

Terence Morgan

Terence Morgan

as Laertes

Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing

as Osric

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

as Gravedigger

Russell Thorndike

Russell Thorndike

as Priest

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Did you ever notice how Laurence Olivier never looks to camera when he speaks in this film? Even during the most potent of his soliloquies, he always manages to avoid any direct eye contact with the audience! His "Hamlet", here, though, is the definitive representation of this troubled Shakespearian...

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