Hamlet

1948

153 min

7.4

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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.

Budget

$750,000

Genre

Drama

Director

Laurence Olivier

Country

United Kingdom

Cast & Crew

Laurence Olivier

Basil Sydney

Eileen Herlie

Norman Wooland

Felix Aylmer

Jean Simmons

Terence Morgan

Peter Cushing

Stanley Holloway

Russell Thorndike

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Hamlet

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.

  • Laurence Olivier

  • Basil Sydney

  • Eileen Herlie

  • Norman Wooland

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