Hamlet
1948
The motion picture of all time ... for all time!
- Laurence Olivier
- 2h 33m
- December 10, 1948 · United Kingdom
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 10, 1948
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- J. Arthur Rank Organisation,Two Cities Films
- Cast
- Laurence Olivier,Basil Sydney,Eileen Herlie,Norman Wooland,Felix Aylmer,Jean Simmons,Terence Morgan,Peter Cushing,Stanley Holloway,Russell Thorndikeand 15 more
- Director
- Laurence Olivier
- Producer
- Laurence Olivier
- Cinematography
- Desmond Dickinson
- Music
- William Walton
- Budget
- $750,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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