Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - Shakespeare - 1948 - HD Restored - 4K
Hamlet (1948) - Adapted and Directed by Laurence Olivier
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Hamlet - OLIVIER, Laurence
Gertrude - HERLIE, Eileen
Claudius - SYDNEY, Basil
Ophelia - SIMMONS, Jean
Polonius - AYLMER, Felix
Horatio - WOOLAND, Norman
Laertes - MORGAN, Terence
Gravedigger - HOLLOWAY, Stanley
Osric - CUSHING, Peter
Bernardo - KNIGHT, Esmond
Marcellus - QUAYLE, Anthony
First Player - WILLIAMS, Harcourt
Francisco - LAURIE, John
Sea Captain - MacGINNIS, Niall
Player King - TROUGHTON, Patrick
Player Queen - TARVER, Tony
Priest - THORNDIKE, Russell
Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet was made four years after his rousingly patriotic Henry V (1944), and is a very different proposition. Unsurprisingly, given the tone and content of the play, the overall mood is that of brooding introspection - tellingly, in a phrase not in Shakespeare’s o