Jay Rogoff, who teaches at Skidmore College, compares Kenneth Branagh’s four-hour film of Hamlet with earlier ones, such as Laurence Olivier’s 1948 version. He quibbles with some of Mr ...

Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Hamlet,” which Laurence Olivier produced into a magnificent film for the J. Arthur Rank organization, of proof that Jonson knew whereof he spoke when he wrote that ...

Henry V and Hamlet will refresh and enchant every moviegoer who has it in him to love great dramatic poetry, beautifully spoken and acted. A man who can do what Laurence Olivier is doing for ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

My friends know well that I’ve seen numerous productions of the work, recite Hamlet’s monologues to myself, even put Kenneth Branagh or Laurence Olivier’s “Hamlet” on in the background ...

“In his Romeo, Mercutio, Hamlet, Henry, Macbeth and Coriolanus ... treatment of the actor’s professional achievements, “Laurence Olivier” undergoes a drastic tone change whenever its ...