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Hamlet is a British film of genre Drama directed by Laurence Olivier released in USA on 4 may 1948 with Laurence Olivier

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet
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Released in USA 4 may 1948
Length 2h35
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Genres Drama
Rating75% 3.7977353.7977353.7977353.7977353.797735

Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 As You Like It had starred Olivier, but had been directed by Paul Czinner). Hamlet was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is also the first sound film of the play in English. A 1935 sound film adaptation, Khoon Ka Khoon, had been made in India and filmed in the Urdu language.

Olivier's Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. However, it proved controversial among Shakespearean purists, who felt that Olivier had made too many alterations and excisions to the four-hour play by cutting nearly two hours' worth of content. Milton Shulman wrote in The Evening Standard "To some it will be one of the greatest films ever made, to others a deep disappointment. Laurence Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors...his liberties with the text, however, are sure to disturb many."

Synopsis

The film follows the overall story of the play, but cuts nearly half the dialogue, leaves out two major characters.

Actors

Laurence Olivier

(Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost)Basil Sydney

(Claudius - The King)Eileen Herlie

(Queen Gertrude. Gertrude, now married to Claudius, does not suspect foul play, and fears for the health of her son. A Scottish-American actress, Herlie's role in Hamlet was secured by arrangement with Sir Alexander Korda, and she would repeat it in the 19)Jean Simmons

(Ophelia)Peter Cushing

(Osric)
And :
Stanley Holloway
Anthony Quayle
Felix Aylmer
Terence Morgan
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