Hamlet is now convinced of Claudius' treachery. Claudius, unable to endure the play, calls out for light, and retires to his room. However, Hamlet makes a few alterations to the play, so as to make it mirror the circumstances of the late King's murder. Hamlet then hires a group of wandering stage performers, requesting that they enact the play The Murder of Gonzago for the king. Hamlet's "madness" is constant even in this exchange, and Claudius is convinced. Claudius, however, is not fully convinced, and has Polonius set up a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia. Polonius pushes this point with the King, claiming that it is derived from Hamlet's love for Ophelia ( Jean Simmons), Polonius's daughter. This feigned insanity attracts the attention of Polonius ( Felix Aylmer) who is completely convinced that Hamlet has gone mad.
Hamlet does not at first accept this as the truth, and then prepares to feign madness, so as to test Claudius' conscience, without jumping to conclusions. The audience then sees the murder re-enacted in a flashback as the ghost describes the deed – Claudius is seen pouring poison into the late King Hamlet's ear, thereby killing him. He tells Hamlet that he was murdered, who did it, and how it was done. Noting that the ghost beckons him forward, Hamlet follows it up onto a tower, wherein it reveals its identity as the Ghost of Hamlet's father. Hamlet proceeds to investigate, and upon arriving on the battlements, sees the ghost. Soon, Horatio and the sentries enter telling Hamlet of the ghostly apparition of his father. When the court has left the Great Hall, Hamlet fumes over the hasty marriage, muttering to himself the words "and yet, within a month!" Prince Hamlet ( Laurence Olivier) sits alone, refusing to join in the celebration, despite the protests of the new King. Inside the Great Hall of the castle, the court is celebrating the marriage of Gertrude ( Eileen Herlie) and King Claudius ( Basil Sydney) old King Hamlet has died apparently of an accidental snakebite, and his wife, Gertrude, has, within a month of the tragedy, married the late King's brother. Suddenly, all three see the Ghost, and Horatio demands that the ghost speak. Marcellus then arrives with the skeptical Horatio ( Norman Wooland), Prince Hamlet's friend. The action begins on the battlements of Elsinore where a sentry, Francisco ( John Laurie), is relieved of his watch (and questioned if he has seen anything) by another sentry, Bernardo ( Esmond Knight), who, with yet another sentry, Marcellus ( Anthony Quayle), has twice previously seen the Ghost of King Hamlet. The film follows the overall story of the play, but cuts nearly half the dialogue and leaves out two major characters. his liberties with the text, however, are sure to disturb many." Laurence Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors. Milton Shulman wrote in The Evening Standard: "To some it will be one of the greatest films ever made, to others a deep disappointment. However, it proved controversial among Shakespearean purists, who felt that Olivier had made too many alterations and excisions to the four-hour play by cutting nearly two hours' worth of content. Olivier's Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It is the first sound film of the play in English. Hamlet was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director and the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed (the 1936 As You Like It had starred Olivier, but had been directed by Paul Czinner). Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.
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