Hamlet Movie Download

Imdb rating:	8.0 (with 3939 votes)
Year:	1948
Genres:	Drama

Hamlet Storyline

William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

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Actors

Laurie, John as Francisco, Knight, Esmond as Bernardo, Quayle, Anthony as Marcellus, MacGinnis, Niall as Sea Captain, Williams, Harcourt as First Player, Troughton, Patrick as Player King, Tarver, Tony as Player Queen, Cushing, Peter as Osric, Servant to the Court, Holloway, Stanley as Gravedigger, Thorndike, Russell as Priest, Sydney, Basil as Claudius, The King, Herlie, Eileen as Gertrude, The Queen, Olivier, Laurence as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Wooland, Norman as Horatio, Hamlet's friend, Aylmer, Felix as Polonius, Lord Chamberlain

Hamlet trivia

When the movie was released 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) said it had been filmed in black and white for artistic reasons. The true reason, as he later admitted, was that "I was in the middle of a furious row with Technicolor".
Olivier played the voice of Hamlet's father's ghost himself by recording the dialog and playing it back at a reduced speed, giving it a macabre quality. Many references inexplicably credit the voice of the ghost as being performed by 'John Gielgud' (qv), perhaps because it does sound vaguely like him, but it has been said that Olivier actually disliked working with Gielgud in Shakespearean films, and turned down his request to play the Chorus in his film of "Henry V". If Gielgud had played the Ghost in Olivier's "Hamlet", it would have been the first of three appearances (so to speak) as the character: Gielgud played the Ghost in the 'Richard Burton (I)' (qv) and 'Richard Chamberlain (I)' (qv) version.
First full length feature film of 'Terence Morgan (II)' (qv).
'Laurence Olivier' (qv) was 41 when Hamlet was released. 'Eileen Herlie' (qv), who played Hamlet's mother Gertrude, was 28.
Olivier didn't attend the Academy Awards ceremony in which he won two Oscars as he was performing in a play in London at the time with his wife, 'Vivien Leigh' (qv).