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Hamlet

The motion picture of all time ... for all time!

1948 · NR · 2h 33m

Directed by Laurence Olivier

7.4

TMDB audience score
305 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • 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

  • Tony Tarver
    Player Queen

  • Niall MacGinnis
    Sea Captain

  • Anthony Bushell
    Bit Part (uncredited)