Hamlet on Video - 1948 Laurence Olivier stars in and directs this classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.

See Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature on HBO. Or watch Laurence Olivier’s 1948 “Hamlet” on TCM. By Gabe Cohn QUEEN & SLIM (2019) 9 p.m. on HBO. In the blink of an eye, a sputtering first ...

The Daily News gave “Hamlet” four stars in 1948, showing that the screen is a better medium for Shakespeare than the stage.

Jay Rogoff, who teaches at Skidmore College, compares Kenneth Branagh’s four-hour film of Hamlet with earlier ones, such as Laurence Olivier’s 1948 version. He quibbles with some of Mr ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - At the start of Laurence Olivier's 1948 British film adaptation of "Hamlet," the director and star offers a helpful voiceover: "This," Olivier intones, "is the tragedy of a man ...

A young man, Yvan, watches what remains the most famous screen “Hamlet,” Laurence Olivier’s 1948 version, which won a best picture Oscar and Olivier a best actor Oscar.

Laurence Olivier’s “Hamlet”–with a dyed-blond Olivier acting up a quiet storm as the Melancholy Dane, while also producing and directing–is one of the great Shakespearean films. It’s ...

Yet by 1948 Olivier could practically play Hamlet in his sleep, having first played the part on stage 11 years prior in a 1937 production of Hamlet hosted at London's legendary Old Vic Theatre.