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Hamlet

Criterion/Voyager (May 06, 1948)

Drama | Thriller

USA | English | Color | 02:33

7.6

18,494

Criterion Collection

NR (Not Rated)

037429128428

| 1 disc

Region 1

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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.

Cast View all

	John Laurie	Francisco
	Esmond Knight	Bernardo
	Anthony Quayle	Marcellus
	Niall MacGinnis	Sea Captain
	Harcourt Williams	First Player
	Patrick Troughton	Player King
	Tony Tarver	Player Queen
	Peter Cushing	Osric
	Stanley Holloway	Gravedigger
	Russell Thorndike	Priest
	Basil Sydney	Claudius / The King
	Eileen Herlie	Gertrude / The Queen
	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet / Prince of Denmark
	Norman Wooland	Horatio / His Friend
	Felix Aylmer	Polonius / Lord Chamberlain
	Terence Morgan	Laertes / His Son
	Jean Simmons	Ophelia / and Daughter
	Anthony Bushell	Undetermined Secondary Role
	Patricia Davidson	Lady of the Court
	John Gielgud	King Hamlet's Ghost
	Doreen Lawrence	Extra
	Christopher Lee	Palace Guard
	Desmond Llewelyn	Extra
	Victor Lucas	Extra
	Patrick Macnee	Extra

Crew View all

Director	Laurence Olivier
Writer	William Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier
Producer	Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell, Laurence Olivier, Herbert Smith
Musician	William Walton
Photography	Desmond Dickinson