Movie
Hamlet
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1948-12-10
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Two Cities Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Laurence Olivier as Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
- Basil Sydney as Claudius - The King
- Eileen Herlie as Gertrude - The Queen
- Norman Wooland as Horatio - His Friend
- Felix Aylmer as Polonius - Lord Chamberlain
- Jean Simmons as Ophelia
- Terence Morgan as Laertes
- Peter Cushing as Osric
- Stanley Holloway as Gravedigger
- Russell Thorndike as Priest
- John Laurie as Francisco
- Esmond Knight as Bernardo
Crew
- Laurence Olivier - Director
- Laurence Olivier - Screenplay
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