Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year complaining about what was wrong with the movies, the critics paused long enough last week to pick the ten best of 1948. By week's end, four notable lists' had appeared. Only two films landed on all four lists: Sir Laurence Olivier's monumental Hamlet and Warner's melodrama, Johnny Belinda. 20th Century-Fox's shocker about insanity, The Snake Pit, placed on three lists (its late release missed the deadline for the fourth...
...individual kudos, few critics could ignore Olivier for his direction, production and acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...Hamlet. Shakespeare and Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...
...Laurence Olivier ... Of course, Hamlet had a great deal to do with it, but I am also remembering those very lovely performances of his with the Old Vic a few seasons...
...case history was worked out in close collaboration with three prominent psychiatrists, and experts claim that it is accurate and typical. It nevertheless remains artistically the weakest part of the picture. Perhaps if King Lear or Hamlet had been written with the assistance of three prominent psychiatrists, the great tragedies would have bogged down in clinical detail and collapsed under the weight of father complexes and mother fixations...