Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamlet. Shakespeare and Sir Laurence Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...
...story is a modern Hamlet with a happy ending. A 17-year old English youth, played by Dick Van Patten, who had the same role in the Broadway version, returns to London in 1944 after spending the blitz period safely in Canada. While he was gone, his newly-widowed mother had fallen in love with Sir John Fletcher, a rich, handsome, married cabinet minister. He finds them living together in luxiuriant--and informal--domesticity...
...tells his mother, that Sir John "was vile, and you weakened." To snarl things further, Michael's leftist Canadian "organization" believes Sir John to be a "menace to world industrial reorganization," and just one small step above a Fascist. Sizing up the dramatic possibilities, Michael becomes a moping, moody Hamlet. He believes Sir John murdered his father and accuses his mother of "living in sin" with Fletcher...
...Hamlet. Shakespeare and Sir Laurence Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...
...Hamlet. Shakespeare and Sir Laurence Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...