The read
It runs long at 3h 30m.
Synopsis
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
15 audience votes
Key crew
- Rodney BennettDirector
- Dudley SimpsonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Derek JacobiHamlet
- Claire BloomGertrude
- Patrick StewartClaudius
- Eric PorterPolonius
- Lalla WardOphelia
- David RobbLaertes
- Robert SwannHoratio
- Patrick AllenGhost of Hamlet's Father
- Emrys JamesPlayer King
- Jason KempPlayer Queen
- Geoffrey BeeversThird Player / Lucianus
- Bill HomewoodPlayer King in the mime