Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - Shakespeare - 1948 - HD Restored - 4K

Hamlet (1948) - Adapted and Directed by Laurence Olivier Please consider subscribing to our channel for More Insights: CAST 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