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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BURTON,RICHARD
EAN: 0014381588026
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Running Time: 191 minutes
Sales Rank: 38477
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A modern dress version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Danish prince.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 17-AUG-1999
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Burton and the Bard
This was taped or filmed in the 1960s so the quality is not the best and it takes a litle time to get accustomed to it.
Burton growls, whimpers, plays with his voice the way a musician plays with an instrument while tuning it. Yet the end result is.... well, not to be hyperbolic, etherial and marvelous.
A dream cast is present which includes Hume Cronyn , Alfred Drake (of musical fame),John Cullum (Northern Exposure), and an offstage appearance by John Gielgud, just to ... Read More
Rating: - Shakespeare would have raved
Over three hours of wonderful entertainment, Richard Burton is quite magnificent as Hamlet, the direction is superb, watch how wonderfully everyone on stage can be seen at any one time - blocking to die for. The supporting cast are exceptional, only in one place are some words lost because of background noise. A truly inspiring experience.
Rating: - Review for Richard Burton's Hamlet
The new, sealed, DVD arrived even before the scheduled delivery date. It would have been very informative if Amazon had published more information about this version of Hamlet. It had been a long time since I had seen this version, but I remembered that the actors wore "street" clothes.I discovered, after opening the DVD, that this was filmed during the final rehearsal (prior to dress rehearsal) and was directed by Sir John Gielgud. The film was supposed to have been destroyed, but Burton kept a copy ... Read More
Rating: - Definitive Hamlet
This is priviledged viewing. Burton's Hamlet is everything Hamlet should be; virile, impassioned, needling, damaged. The fact that it is a filmed play is obvious. Clarity is not brilliant and you do miss the close-ups of a cinema experience. But in light of the performance, it hardly matters. Hugh Cronyn as Polonius is very good, wry and comical but it is Burton's performance that dominates. The way he paces the stage, the unexpected rhythms of that incomparable voice. No-one has ever depicted the soul ... Read More
Rating:  - Tremendous When it Works
The great Shakespearean actor John Gielgud here directs Richard Burton in a final rehearsal for Hamlet in 1964. It is a fascinating, stage-shrewd interpretation that mostly works, is tremendous when it does, and is also in some scenes flat as a pancake. The rough quality of the film oddly adds to the intensity; it was not meant to be preserved.
Lighting effects and costuming being withheld at this stage of production, the concentration falls on language and gesture. The total effect is first ... Read More
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