Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - Shakespeare - 1948 - HD Restored - 4K
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- Hamlet (1948) - Adapted and Directed by Laurence Olivier
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CAST
Hamlet - OLIVIER, Laurence
Gertrude - HERLIE, Eileen
Claudius - SYDNEY, Basil
Ophelia - SIMMONS, Jean
Polonius - AYLMER, Felix
Horatio - WOOLAND, Norman
Laertes - MORGAN, Terence
Gravedigger - HOLLOWAY, Stanley
Osric - CUSHING, Peter
Bernardo - KNIGHT, Esmond
Marcellus - QUAYLE, Anthony
First Player - WILLIAMS, Harcourt
Francisco - LAURIE, John
Sea Captain - MacGINNIS, Niall
Player King - TROUGHTON, Patrick
Player Queen - TARVER, Tony
Priest - THORNDIKE, Russell
Laurence Olivier's Hamlet was made four years after his rousingly patriotic Henry V (1944), and is a very different proposition. Unsurprisingly, given the tone and content of the play, the overall mood is that of brooding introspection - tellingly, in a phrase not in Shakespeare's original, Olivier opens by telling us that it is "the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind", foregrounding the film's central theme, a neat metaphor for the uncertainty of the immediate postwar years.
He also largely eliminates the play's political intrigue: Fortinbras is banished, and so too are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - the three characters most indelibly associated with the world outside Elsinore. These cuts focus attention on the play's central theme: the relationship between Hamlet, his lover Ophelia, mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius.
Olivier was forty when he played the part, old by Hamlet standards, but a side-effect of this is to intensify the latent eroticism of the scenes with his mother, most notably following Polonius' murder, but also at the climax, when it's made clear that she knowingly drinks the poison to kill herself.
Stylistically, Hamlet is quite different from Henry V. Shot in high-contrast black and white, it's not quite as overtly Expressionist as, for instance, Orson Welles' Macbeth (also 1948), but it's certainly a similarly claustrophobic, stifling experience, with none of the opening-out of its predecessor, or any continuation of Olivier's explorations of the contrast between film and theatrical performance.
Although almost entirely filmed in the studio (the major exception being Ophelia's drowning, inspired by Millais' Pre-Raphaelite painting), the crane-mounted camera is constantly on the move, constantly shifting our perception of the characters' relationship with each other in a way that would be impossible with a stage production.
The following year Hamlet became not just the first British but the first non-American film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, along with Best Actor (Olivier), Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
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Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
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Leave me alone Mom I'm watching 1948 Hamlet
attaboy
Mommy wants to breastfeed you.. c'mon
Lol
Focused fully!😊
It's bloody good isn't it. That sword fight at the end, man I shat a brick the whole way through. Every bit as gripping as any movie released today.
I have an exam tomorrow 😫and it's all about Hamlet so here I am
Wahh 😂
@@rimpa_126 yes i also got an exam tmrw
same 😫
How did it go?
Timestamps
I.1 00:03:00
I.2 00:10:00
I.3 00:19:29
I.4 00:25:00
I.5 00:29:39
II.1 00:34:35
II.2
Polonius accuses Hamlet of Madness 00:46:42
Hamlet toys with Polonius 00:50:50
The Players introduced 01:06:00
III.1
The Soliloquy 01:01:40
To a nunnery 00:53:53
III.2 01:09:10
The Mousetrap 01:15:19
III.3 01:23:44
III.4 01:28:00
IV.1 cut
IV.2 cut
IV.3 01:38:30
IV.4 cut
IV.5
Ophelia's madness 01:42:03
Laertes sees Ophelia's madness 01:49:46
IV.6 01:47:55
IV.7
Letters 01:46:58
Claudius in conference with Laertes 02:04:30
Ophelia's death revealed 01:54:05
V.1 01:55:55
V.2 02:09:45
The duel 02:15:06
thanks man❤
Thank you very much!
GO TO A NUNNERY, My favorite quote to ruin Someones Valentine's Day 😂😂😂😊
Why, didnt they say that women like SHAKESPEARE's verses in courtsmanship?
Thank you sooo much
I miss R & G they always add a lot of flavour so it’s a shame they were cut
the scene where he confronts his mother is so breathtaking in its heart break. Both actors have great chemistry and I will never get over how well everyone in this production acts together. Every single one of them are a thrill to watch
409 years old, yet we still understand the language, drama, and brilliance.
We still get those from far older texts. Greek or roman
I think I will have to watch It 2 or 3 more times to fully understand the dialogues, It kinda hard for me.
@@raulbetancourt5795 .75 speed plus subtitles helps, but much of the machine-generated subtitling is poor, mistaken and misleading. I often rewind/review dialogue. There are other great versions ("Haider" 2014 and Branagh's 4hr Hamlet 1996,) but best of all: *Read the Plays.* 😄😩
I have complete works book, sometimes read passages along as I watch or listen to the actors recite. It helps glean the meanings as shakespeare’s language is super dense. A lot of the content in the plays is usually shortened and/or rearranged in productions though!
@@Anicius_agreed
This is one of the best things to have ever graced CZcams in such quality.
Sir Laurence Olivier, playing Hamlet. The complete play. On CZcams. For free. Dang! ❤️😀
I can't think about Hamlet without thinking of Sir Laurence Olivier. What an actor! And not forgetting all the actors of this movie: all of them are sublime!
Lord olivier played the role with his heart
One of the greatest pieces of English literature in combination with one of the most sublime dramatic expression by actresses and actors. I cannot help but think Hamlet was a real person.
Superb production in every way. We can all very much appreciate the great acting on display here but no one ever mentions the great camerawork by Desmond Dickinson --- it lent a moody, atmospheric and experimental tone to the film, a feeling akin to the work done by Gregg Toland on _Citizen Kane_ seven years earlier --- which, like this film, had a _film noir_ sensibility. Dickinson's moody atmospherics were also memorably on display 12 years later in the cult classic _City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel)._ In my opinion, this is the best film version of Hamlet --- quite memorable.
Photography, art direction and stage design which no doubt greatly influenced the modern A24 version of Macbeth played by Denzel Washington!
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I agree. It is the best Hamlet on screen. Thank you for the info on the cameraman.
The best acted Hamlet. Olivier understood how the meaning of Shakespeares dialogue and how it was meant to be delivered
Don't you all respect the actor who plays the king? What a wonderful voice. Pure Shakespeare!
Basil Sydney...until I looked him up, never heard of him .
The classic film noir lighting is sublime.
What a beautiful accent and pronunciation! What a beautiful English speech! It’s a pity that now you won’t hear such a pronunciation and accent anywhere

Wow. Looks Incredible. Thank you for letting us watch these, free of charge.
This is the ultimate level of acting. Great movie. All of them amazing. Love Olivier. He is the God of actors. 🙏♥️🎭
1:02:00 is when the To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy starts in case anyone else wants to rewatch that part.
You’re a hero! Thanks
Just missed a whole extra points question on the word soliloquy too😭😭😭
Thank you.
This was my first time experiencing Hamlet. Maaaan that play scene was INSANE!!!!
Ikr, watching it for the first time this weekend/when I have the time
Sorry which play scene? What's the time stamp?
@@shushanto 1:13:19
A masterpiece of acting n play. A full salute to the late Olivier the master actor of all time.
Wonderfully done! Shakespeare never goes out of style
Agree ❤️
Never.
brilliant, heartbreaking, passionate, yet deliciously delicate. Now I know what it means to be fully human. Shakespeare is the GOAT.
This 1948 production of "Hamlet" is rightfully the definitive version of the play. "Hamlet" has alot of complex themes that transcend the boundaries of time. Of course, Laurence Olivier's depiction of "Hamlet" is certainly the gold standard for playing this leading role.
Thank you for sharing this.
Olivier’s leap from the balcony at 02:26:09 always amazes me.
What an existential masterpiece
“All that lives must die,
Passing trough nature to eternity”
This 1948 version of hamlet will never be surpassed...others since have tried but failed
* Thanks for uploading 👍
The 1996 Version is pretty good too, I recommend giving it a watch although it's much longer of a film
I do like Olivier but I can't stand the simplification of his summary at the beginning (i.e. the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind)
@@limbsofosiris3187 Yes, I didn't agree with that.
@@limbsofosiris3187 I believe Olivier and specifically this amazing production is the best Hamlet on film that exists, and I have seen them all.
But, his statement about “not making up his mind”, also bothers me.
I don’t follow his meaning. I wonder if anyone has done explanatory research on this?
@@raylicon9525 The Russian version is also good.
The best version.
He did the play upon the stage as well. How brilliant he was! 👏
As Shakespeare is the Touchstone for acting abilities, so too, Olivier is the measurement of both man and artist.
Missing a few acts in this movie probably due to sensorship and lack of timing. I loved how they all bowed to Hamlet in the end as he was instantly King of Denmark for a few minutes before he succumbed to the poison.
Obsessed with this at the sec. Esp John Laurie as Francisco. "...And I am sick at heart". Would have loved to have seen his Hamlet in the 1920s.
Thank God the audio quality is good, the other versions i found had poor audio and no subtitles... this is my first time experiencing hamlet and its so good so far 20ish minutes in so far like ophelias quirks like messing with her brothers dagger and lil pouch lol good visual storytelling about her personality
My Phd guide suggested me this when I told her I would like to research in Hamlet...... Such a marvellous adaptation though I found it late😍😍😍😍😍😍
In 1948 I was a 14 Year old schoolgirl and remember watching this very movie in Berlin. Unfortunely I could not understand all of the dialogue
I just watched the dvd of this movie now. It's so different. Excellent!
A plethora of quotes thus spoke unto this day.
Wonderful photography. The depth of focus is amazing.
Thank you for uploading this treasure!
My favorite version all time 👏👏👏👏❣️
During powerful snowstorm Hamlet never goes out of style! 😱
Hamlet's mother doesn't look a day older than her son slay
Eileen Herlie was eleven years YOUNGER than Olivier. Very odd. In 1964 she did the same role with Richard Burton - they were both in their forties.
Been watching it many times, such a great movie
it's one of Shake Spears best, it's a beautiful setting sun, brilliant Hamlet is court jester, stand up comedian, politician, prince, and of course a poet.
Shake Spear. Hahaha !!!
Am 51 and just got interested in Shakespeare
Beat you Im 61 and just beginning to appreciate him . Read him in hi school and college ,but it just stuck me as to pretentious .Only now that im older I can appreciate language that is art in it self . Even more Shakespeare s unworldy understanding of human physcology especially for someone who was untraveled as he .
You have a wonderful life ahead of you.
Masterpiece of a film. Thanks ;) My favorite Shakespeare play.
Beautiful to watch this restored tragedy
Mr. Terence Morgan took my heart ❤️ away … rip ❤️
Thank you so much for uploading this video and I wish many more from you
studying this play for school right now! Thanks
thank you so much
this is amazing to get to see in entirety
"Oh true to thee sweet Hamlet, rest in thine sweet repose for thou hast served thy father well in vengeance sweet embrace. " Randy Dorrow.
ooooooo thank you for posting. Much appreciated.
This looks stunning!! Thank you for this upload. Truly beautiful
Amazing work ❤love sir Lawrence’s take on Hamlet
Truest to the play; interpretation the best I've seen on YT.
I agree. I haven’t come across a better hamlet. BTW - what is the meaning of “this a play about a character who couldn’t make up his mind”?
I'm sure there's much to love about this film, but the Brannagh film is the full text runs just over four hours. I mean no disrespect to Olivier, but the summary at the beginning about Hamlet being merely a person who "could not make up his mind" seems limited to me. And it seems wrong to cut any lines from this glorious play, especially Hamlet's own lines. I guess they used voiceovers to try to make it more "realistic," but I'd much prefer to see the actor speaking the lines. For what it's worth, I was utterly destroyed by Olivier's version of King Lear.
If this is the truest version of Hamlet for you than you obviously haven’t seen any well produced stage adaptations. Olive has cut out major points and characters, not to mention moving key dialogue among different cast. But as to the best Hamlet ever filmed I agree hands down. Thur Olive almost makes it seem the titular character is love with his own mother (yikes). You should checkout the 1969 version to put this one in perspective. Funny Nicole Williams version was hailed at the time but now is all but forgotten.
@@michaelgarza8271 Can't agree with you more about the summary! I think Hamlet was, instead of being unable to make up his mind, very real and very determined!
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Thank you. I enjoyed watching it.
thanks for uploading!
Not sure why Olivier decided to dispense with the "adders fang'd" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Would have liked to have the "What's he to Hecuba?" speech and "She doth protest too much" remain. Meanwhile Jean Simmons is beautiful and perfectly cast. =
It's been a while since I've watched a play on CZcams. Well done!
The GREATEST actor ever born.. Sir Laurence Olivier
I loved him in the movie " A little Romance". So elegant.
Superbe! With original subtitles would be perfect...
Laurance Olivier o maior ator do século XX !
Thank you for this fabulous upload. To have such an old film preserved so beautifully, is something to be grateful for.
While playing a very minor role, it's also the earliest appearance of Patrick Troughton that we have in acceptable viewing quality.
Lord Olivier had an absolutely HUGE Hamlet! Oh, suits you sir!
Such a generous gift !!!! Thank uuuuuuuuuu ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am in my mid 50's & cannot find the 1929 and 1936 versions of the same play, released in England, that I am certain was shown on either BBC or ITV, in the early 1970's.
1:47:05 Peter Cushing!
Shit goes sooooo hard. Tried and failed to watch several awful college productions before landing here and enjoying every forsaken second. Poor guy; lucky us.
I've seen all but Olivier's Hamlet outshines every other
thanks for the film
Jean Simmons (Ophelia) was married to Richard Brooks, who directed the wonderful Western film, 'The Professionals'.
Thanks for uploading
Our pleasure!
1:51:15 "There's rosemary, for remembrance."
Masterpiece ❤
just brilliant.
145 am sure let's start hamlet
I had to watch this for homework. But honestly the movie is actually good
Classic
Norman Wooland was a wonderful and handsome Horatio.
Anyone miss Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern? Or Fortinbras? Not I.
Thank you☺️🕊️🤍
You are so welcome! Cheers!
This is the best filmed version of Hamlet, period.
BRAVO!
He had more chemistry with his mother than with Ophelia ☻
Yes you're absolutely Right.
chemistry is putting it gently, getting close to a French kiss🫦
Ayo!
Thanks!
Superb
extraordinary
thanks for helping me with my english homework
Our pleasure! We are glad to hear that.
So, that performance suggests it's Horatio to take over the Denmark after Hamlet's death?
by the way the fact that he remaines there next to his body is just heartwrenching.
Brilliant! 👏👏👏👏
Yorick's skull scene
1:59:10
Stunning...Absolutely Stunning!!! I'd heard of the famous 'Yoricks skull scene but had never seen it. The movie just absorbs you to the point that I had completely forgotten about it....Then Ophelia dies, the scene fades and next we're in a graveyard...I remember thinking, 'oh yes! The graveyard scene. Let's see how it goes....Brilliant!! Oliver's acting and directing cannot be beaten!! Two bits stand out. When the grave digger says, "who'd you think it was?" And Oliver laughs and says, 'nay, I know not." Just the way he laughs as he says it is perfect! And of course, when Oliver holds the skull with the Classic Lines, "Where be your jibes now? Your songs, your gambles? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?"...Genius Shakespeare, Brilliant Oliver
To make a long story short, "To be or not to be" was the question, "Not to be" was the answer. Yes, 'tis better to take up arms against a sea of troubles, even if you can't possibly win, and die with dignity with your boots on. Don't worry though about "perchance to dream". Death is dreamless.
All sane and decent people should be feeling like Hamlet in the world today, such as it is.
Better than what people make today
Il migliore Amleto di tutti quelli portati sullo schermo
Bravo 👏
Awsome!
Epic
35:04 - Darth Hamlet
Good hamlet goooood
I just realized something at 61 years of age: Hamlet should have gone off to college at Wittenberg to escape his parents, just as I did in 1979 from my parents. A lot would have been spared. But then, we would not have this wonderful play had he done so!
He was the Crown Prince and heir to the throne whose father, the king, had been murdered. That's a bit different from a college kid on spring break who comes home to find himself in the midst of a family quarrel.
Hamlet was the Prince of coulda, shoulda, woulda or rather couldna, shouldna, wouldna. He should have stayed out of his mother’s bedroom! It was routine among oligarchs to marry their brother’s widows. Not killing them to have them necessarily but getting Geraldine in the chamber had nothing to do with motive. She was not the prize, but collateral reward. The Kingdom was the prize. Kingdoms breed murders like granaries breed rats and the women, well: you see their ends. Father could not avenge himself and being more pagan than Christian could not wait on divine justice so called back or come back from the dead he ensorcels his son and nearly destroys a kingdom he could not repossess, certainly. And now his line has ended. Madness! Like father, like son neither could take the long view.
He suggests that himself, but the king and queen "request" that he stay, so I think he had to stay.
@@jeanettesdaughter Sure, blame the victims
You should read "Philosophy in Hamlet" to understand Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Thanks for the advice!
and Ulysses by James Joyce Chapter 9
Nice one😀