Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- father murder
- based on play or musical
- fratricide
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
Basil Sydney
Claudius - The King
Eileen Herlie
Gertrude - The Queen
Norman Wooland
Horatio - His Friend
- Felix Aylmer — Polonius - Lord Chamberlain
- Jean Simmons — Ophelia
- Terence Morgan — Laertes
- Peter Cushing — Osric
- Stanley Holloway — Gravedigger
- Russell Thorndike — Priest
- John Laurie — Francisco
- Esmond Knight — Bernardo
- Anthony Quayle — Marcellus
- Harcourt Williams — First Player
- Patrick Troughton — Player King
- Directed
- Laurence Olivier
- Written
- Laurence Olivier
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 294 ratings
- Studio
- Two Cities Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
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