Hamlet at Elsinore
movie
Released April 15, 1964
Overview
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Cast
Christopher Plummer
as
Hamlet
Robert Shaw
as
Claudius
Alec Clunes
as
Polonius
Michael Caine
as
Horatio
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June Tobin
as
Gertrude
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Jo Maxwell Muller
as
Ophelia
Roy Kinnear
as
Gravedigger
Philip Locke
as
Osric
Dyson Lovell
as
Laertes
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Peter Prowse
as
Marcellus
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David Calderisi
as
Rosencrantz
Bill Wallis
as
Guildenstern
