Hamlet

1948 · 153 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 19,045 VOTES · DIR. Laurence Olivier

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Overview

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,768 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:03:01 This is the tragedy...
00:08:44 nor witch hath power to charm
00:14:57 a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead
00:20:56 - No more, but so? - Think it no more.
00:26:17 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.
00:32:08 oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
00:38:02 that swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates...
00:43:23 how strange or odd so eer I bear myself
00:48:47 Doubt truth to be a liar
00:53:19 Though this be madness, yet theres method intt.
01:00:52 - What think you ont? - It shall do well
01:08:23 - Come, sirs. - Follow him, friends.
01:15:13 - You are merry, my lord. - Who? I?
01:25:07 Pray, can I not, though inclination be as sharp as will.
01:30:50 Take thy fortune.
01:36:34 O Hamlet. Thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
01:43:07 Why, how now, Ophelia?
01:50:24 of your dear fathers death, istt writ in your revenge...
01:57:31 We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us.
02:03:05 Now pile your dust on the quick and dead...
02:08:45 bring you in short together and wager on your heads.
02:13:55 Let the swords be brought, the gentleman willing...
02:20:35 Give him the cup.
02:30:48 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,768
Dialogue density11.6 lines / min
First line00:03:01
Final line02:30:48

Production Record

DirectorLaurence Olivier
LanguageEnglish
Budget$750,000
IMDb votes19,045