1940s, 3.5/4, Best Picture Winner, Drama, Laurence Olivier, Review

Hamlet (1948)

Making a movie from Shakespeare is kind of cheating, isn't it? Laurence Olivier, fresh off of his success of bringing Henry V to the screen in 1947, ended up zeroing in on Hamlet as his follow up (Orson Welles' long in the works pair of adaptations of Macbeth and Othello apparently helped affect Olivier's thinking),… Continue reading Hamlet (1948)

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