Hamlet

Hamlet

By Laurence Olivier

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1948-01-01
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 2h 33min
  • Director: Laurence Olivier
  • Production Company: Miramax
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 14.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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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.

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  • Appalls the free, confounds the ignorant

    1
    By Shashibiya
    What was au courant in 1948 comes off as a glacially paced ego-trip today. Olivier cuts whole swaths of the text lest anyone should make the mistake of thinking the play has anything more interesting to offer than his performance. And that introduction! “This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind.” Thanks for clearing that up for us, Larry. 🙄 Give me a break.

  • The best way to consume Hamlet in a short time

    5
    By Cthonic Youth
    Beautifully shot and Olivier is so great. Essential viewing and an education on how to adapt overlong and daunting work.

  • Magnificent, of course, but short

    5
    By Flash Sheridan
    Lord Olivier and his cast are magnificent, of course, but this is hardly the whole play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are absent, for instance, which rather confused me when first watching Stoppard.

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