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1948 |
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DRAMA
COSTUME
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| Length: |
155 |
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Gloomy Dane (Laurence Olivier) believes his father was killed by his stepfather.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| A severely pruned version of Shakespeare's tragedy: Olivier excises Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and interperts the play as being "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind". Olivier's directorial attempts to make the film more cinematic are more distracting than effective, and his performance hasn't stood the test of time - he seems bent at times on putting the "ham" back into Hamlet. A far more moving performance comes from Jean Simmons as Ophelia. The art direction and costume design won Oscars; William Walton's score was also nominated. |
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, Eileen Herlie 
