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Hamlet

Release Date:September 29, 1948

Running Time:153 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

Laurence Olivier Basil Sydney Eileen Herlie Norman Wooland Felix Aylmer Jean Simmons Terence Morgan Peter Cushing Stanley Holloway Russell Thorndike John Laurie Esmond Knight

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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