Hamlet at Elsinore
7.8 1964 170mDramaTV Movie
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
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Top Cast
Christopher Plummer
Hamlet
Robert Shaw
Claudius
Alec Clunes
Polonius
Michael Caine
Horatio
June Tobin
June Tobin
Gertrude
Jo Maxwell Muller
Jo Maxwell Muller
Ophelia
Roy Kinnear
Gravedigger
Philip Locke
Osric
Dyson Lovell
Laertes
Peter Prowse
Peter Prowse
Marcellus
David Calderisi
Rosencrantz
Bill Wallis
Guildenstern
