Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Release: 1964-09-23
·Runtime: 191m
·★ 6.5
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Cast
Linda Marsh
as Ophelia
Eileen Herlie
as Gertrude
Gerome Ragni
as Attendant
Alfred Drake
as Claudius
John Gielgud
as Ghost (voice)
Richard Burton
as Hamlet
William Redfield
as Guildenstern
George Rose
as First Gravedigger
Philip Coolidge
as Voltimand
John Cullum
as Laertes
Barnard Hughes
as Marcellus / Priest
Hume Cronyn
as Polonius
George Voskovec
as Player King