Video: 'Hamlet' trailer

(Thursday, May 6, 1948, evening BST) — Hamlet, a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name about a melancholy Dane who flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father, premiered today at The Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

Adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Hamlet would become the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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