Interesting to hear such well known phrases / titles as 'murder most foul', 'to the manor born' and 'leave her to heaven'.
Strikingly photographed and directed, though some of the tracking / crane shots are somewhat wobbly.George Dickinson's roving camera and strong lighting are a definite feature. Also the writing doesn't feel like a series of scenes and acts.
Really more interesting than I thought it would be, though not quite up to Orson Welles's standard.
Love the soliloquies that start out as internal thoughts.
Desdemona's death - most lyrical. The filming of the play-within-the-play most interesting.
Long, though (2 1/2 hours).
Good cast: Jean Simmons, Basil Sydney and Eileen Herlie (king and queen), Felix Aylmer, Norman Wooland (Horatio), Terence Morgan; and Stanley Holloway, Peter Cushing, Anthony Quayle, Patrick Troughton, Harcourt Williams, Esmond Knight, John Laurie.
I think the dialogue between Hamlet and Desdemona "Shall I lie on your lap...Do you think I meant country matters?..That's a fair thought to lie between maid's legs" was meant to be suggestive.
I was all set to go straight into Kozintsev's 1964 version, but the disc was fucked.
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