Hamlet
Hamlet - was released on: 28 September 1948.
The movie had an excellent cast consisting of:
- John Laurie… - played the character of: Francisco
- Esmond Knight… - played the character of: Bernardo
- Anthony Quayle… - played the character of: Marcellus
- Niall MacGinnis… Sea Captain
- Harcourt Williams… First Player
- Patrick Troughton… - played the character of: Player King
- Tony Tarver… - played the character of: Player Queen
- Peter Cushing… - played the character of: Osric, Servant to the Court
- Stanley Holloway… - played the character of: Gravedigger
- Russell Thorndike… Priest
- Basil Sydney… - played the character of: Claudius, The King
- Eileen Herlie… - played the character of: Gertrude, The Queen
- Laurence Olivier… - played the character of: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Norman Wooland… - played the character of: Horatio, Hamlet’s friend
- Felix Aylmer… - played the character of: Polonius, Lord Chamberlain
Here is a summary of the film’s plot:
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. Written by alfiehitchie