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Hamlet

Esmond Knight (Actor), Anthony Quayle (Actor) Format: Blu-ray

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Genre	Drama
Format	Import, Blu-ray
Contributor	Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Cushing, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Jean Simmons, Anthony Bushell, Anthony Quayle, Laurence Olivier See more
Language	English
Runtime	153 minutes

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of {-Hamlet} is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Danish prince who's still melancholy over the sudden death of his father and the quick, subsequent remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude (Eileen Herlie) to his uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney). Informed by the ghost of his father that Claudius murdered him, Hamlet schemes to take revenge. Unsure how best to proceed, his delays and the horrible secret burdening him eventually lead to the violent snuffing out of several lives in both his family and that of courtier Polonius (Felix Aylmer), whose daughter Ophelia (Jean Simmons) is in love with Hamlet. Greatly influenced by the inventive camera work in Citizen Kane (1941) and by modern, psychological reinterpretations of Shakespeare's play, Olivier's masterpiece was the winner of four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Olivier), Best Black and White Art Direction/Set Direction and Best Black and White Costume Design. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain, Golden Globes, Oscar Academy Awards, Venice Film Festival, ...Hamlet (1948) (Blu-Ray)

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 Grams
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 5037115323439
Director ‏ : ‎ Laurence Olivier
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, Blu-ray
Run time ‏ : ‎ 153 minutes
Actors ‏ : ‎ Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Cushing, Basil Sydney
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ ITV Studios
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002KERM28
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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James M. Shertzer

Classic film sorely in need of restoration

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2018

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Olivier's Oscar-winning film - a milestone in cinema Shakespearean adaptations - is sorely in need of restoration. This Blu-Ray disc seems to have been patched together from a number of prints, some just OK and others in rather shoddy condition. The contrast tends to be poor and there are long sections where scratches and flecks appear. The sound quality is not great either, but audible. Possibly this is the best that can be done with a film now 70 years old, but one senses this is a project that needs the experts at Criterion to be saved from oblivion.

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Speedigee

Definitive Olivier

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2015

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Laurence Olivier has for long been considered to have delivered a standard of Shakespearean acting to which all other actors have aspired. Someone once said that he speaks his lines in a natural way as if he had just thought of them. This is quite evident when you hear him. He won an Oscar for his performance in this film. The only downside for me was quality of sound on this Blu-ray disc. It is audible enough but occasionally there is a ‘surface’ noise reminiscent of an old 78 disc. The picture was ok, albeit in black and white. It was also a delight to see the nineteen year old Jean Simmons, in one of her earlier films, playing Ophelia. To sum up, this is a production that should be in everyone's collection.

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crowscamp

A great film, of course getting the core of the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2015

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A great film, of course getting the core of the play into just over two and a half hours required some abridgement of the full text, no doubt this would have happened in Shakespeare’s day. The loss of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is not so great except that you lose one of my favourite speeches (“do you think I am so easier to be played on than upon than a pipe”). Two other notable losses in this version of the play are the speech Hamlet makes upon meeting soldiers upon a plain in Denmark (Act IV Scene IV) “what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time, be but to sleep and feed ?” and more surprising the full Yorick speech (Act V Scene 1) where Hamlet is meditating on the theme of the brevity of life is cut down.

One aspect of the play brought to full is the relationship between Hamlet and his mother… note the uncomfortably long kiss on the lips at the end of the unmanly grief segment of the play ! Eileen Herlie who plays Gertrude has a magnificent bust, true MILF material ! (interestingly she reprised the role in Burton’s (1964) broadway version).

I liked all the supporting actors however Olivier is superb, his finest filmed acting performance. His Hamlet is measured and nuanced and brilliantly crafted, many later versions of the film benefit by playing out the full text of the plays but the actors playing Hamlet often put on a manic fevered disposition which just does not seem right. Nice to see Anthony Quale (Marcellus) in a supporting part. Terence Morgan as Laertes has been criticised in some reviews, but I quite liked his straight forward approach. I wonder what the thought process was in having the outrageous buffoonery of Peter Cushing as Osric when other interesting parts of the full play have been cut back ? - is it to contrast a Hamlet is shown having an easy natural banter with a gravedigger but can not abide the flattering fools at court ?

Overall a classic that deserves a place upon any collection of Shakespeare play.

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Mr. J. A. Heath

Larry's Hamlet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2013

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I brought this DVD of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet as I am a fan of Olivier and also a Shakespeare buff. I have Olivier's Hamlet on video which I brought some years ago but the quality is not very good. I decided to purchase the DVD from Amazon. The quality of the DVD is much better and so is the sound. I watched the DVD recently and I still admire Olivier's acting as the moody Dane he actually produced and directed as well as taking the leading role. I also have his Richard 111 and Henry V on DVD which I also brought from Amazon a few years ago. To my mind nobody in the film business has ever done Shakespeare for the screen better Olivier brought Shakespeare to the masses with his Henry V and I think he was one of the greatest actors ever in my opinion.

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PoorOldSpike

Excellent quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2021

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The subtitles make Shakesp's flowery prose easy to follow, so this video is a must for all students.
However bear in mind that director Olivier cut out many of the Bard's original passages, so this vid should only be regarded as an "abbreviated" version of Hamlet.:)

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