“Come to bed, stud.” ✨ “Not tonight, bae. I’m watching 1948 Hamlet…”

GRANDISSIMO Paolo Villaggio.ineccepibile interpretazione. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

I saw the film in Birmingham UK & Leonard Whiting was there. As a young women it was so exciting to see him live. Myself & friends all thought he was so gorgeous.

I believe that a huge error has been made in the remastering, the video proportions are 4:3 but it has been stretched to 3:2 in this « remastered » version. It would be nice to have a version that fixes this.

Wonderful performance, full of drama, pathos and irony. Great singing and strong interaction between the main characters, the orchestra carrying the drama and forefronting it in Act 4. Thank you for making this restored version available.

She was something special ❤❤🎉

Imagine how many fools are paying subscriptions for Netflix and other lame platforms with brain numbing content and you can watch this for feee

Saw this movie at the theater when it opened. Clever use of the whole Cole Porter musical-style.

absolutely brilliant! thank you very kindly

uno spettacolo perfetto e vibrante come pochi altri nella storia!

Jeremy Brett as Basil is fantastic (and swoonworthy)

Il Batman all'italiana!!!? Oppure la Cia organizzata da due sole persone !!!! Bat Man e ..... Alfred!!!!!

I'm having Julius Caesar in my syllabus....at first when our teacher showed us the film ,The one character who marked my attention was Casca I just loved it Our teacher describes him as a dumb and dimwit persona But the way Robert vaughn played it ...simply superb ❤❤❤

Incredible performances all. Yet only one performs. ❤ He is an actor's actor. An artist for the ages. Thank you for sharing this sweet, sweet gift.

Only the English can do this. From New Zealand, Rule Britannia ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wow... Duke of York (Lightborn) is the Grail Knight from Indiana Jones: And The Last Crusade. Actor, Robert Eddison.

This actor portraying Bolingbrook looks uncannily like Matt Damon. No I couldst not shaketh the very thought of such a unusual sight.

Absolutely wonderful!

Damn. Never seen a better acting performance as Sir Ian McKellan's, once Banquo has been killed, and MacBeth sees his ghost in his kingly seat. Insanely good acting.

He still had that sexy voice! 😍

The incomparable and wonderful Maggie Smith. What a joy to watch her in action, never disappoints, never wastes a move, or a glance. The cast is excellent.

That was marvelous.. bon voyage Dame Maggie Smith, an international treasure.... and will remain so .

Not to mention Ian Richardson and Ian Holm and David Warner.

*_38:50_**_ AMAZING. Look how handsome he was_*

This is my favorite Hamlet. I don’t like the modernized Hamlet. I much prefer the more traditional versions which are faithful to the original intent.

Heart-breakingly brilliant; bravo!

Very much enjoyed this version, thank you for sharing it with us ❤

Been ages since I've seen this, thanks for posting! Rest in Peace, Timothy West. Just a few days now.

This is who Gandalf the White reincarnates into

The truest adaptation of this book... Also Jeremy Brett is the best Basil I've ever seen. If I were Dorian Gray I'd never leave his side for... Henry, dear lord. That boy fumbled hard.

Incredible reading. Thank you for your great work.

Interesting that the audience didn’t give them a standing ovation. They were AMAZING

1:01:53 - this man’s performance here is so tender and so good.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause-there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.

New soundtrack/score in my opinion, as dissonant as it sometimes is, gives it the intensity, and modern relevancy it deserves. One of the greatest films of all time. No doubt.

The lady playing Joan friggen gets it

A young Christopher Plummer, heavens!

Probably the best film version of Hamlet ever. And that duel at the end is one of the great movie swordfights.

I did this play last year!!

I’d have crawled over broken glass and molten lava to hear this LIVE at La Scala. Absolutely sensational as is Verrett.

Shaw and Plummer also acted in "The royal hunt of the sun". When l remember Shaw l often think of "Jaws", not Shakespeare. Oh boy was l surprised to see this great performance! Hats off!

This is a treasure.

I recently read Dame Judi Dench's book Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, and literally the first play she talks of is Macbeth. And now I find a recording of her performance here! When she described everything of the production - the monochrome costumes, her black headscarf with 'a little gold crown', the 'pared-back' set - I wanted so badly to go back in time and watch it. I'm weeping, I'm so profoundly grateful to have found this. Thank you for making it available ❤

I subscribed. Immediately, i might add! What beautiful treasures are these! What amazing productions!

Rivetting! And the language. How beautifully spoken. However, one production fault. Hamlet wears a cloak the night he waits to meet the ghost of his father. But after the ghost leaves Hamlet no longer has the cloak.

my definition of the absolute perfection in playing: Sir Larry Olivier!

Brilliant!

Bellissima commedia. L'unica cosa, non ho ben capito l'ultima scena...

We are enjoying this one here.

One of the best movies I've ever seen, beats the hell out of any modern film.