Hamlet

1980 · 210 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · 673 VOTES · DIR. Rodney Bennett

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Overview

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.

Dialogue Timeline — 2,696 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:51 - (DISTANT) Who's there? - Nay, answer me.
00:09:15 Therefore our sometime sister
00:18:17 - Hail to your lordship! - I am glad to see thee well.
00:26:20 for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
00:35:38 - O God!
00:43:50 as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on -
00:52:21 Heaven make our presence and our practises pleasant and helpful to him.
01:01:12 yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down
01:09:25 and you - at each ear a hearer.
01:18:16 and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit?
01:28:15 with this regard their currents turn awry...
01:38:24 For thou hast been as one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing
01:49:21 You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
01:58:53 since I am still possess'd of its effects -
02:07:46 that from a shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in his pocket!
02:18:20 O, here they come.
02:27:36 She is importunate, indeed distract. Her mood will needs be pitied.
02:35:59 kind sister
02:45:03 as how should it be so, how otherwise? - will you be ruled by me?
02:54:27 I like thy wit well. The gallows does well, but it does well to those that do ill.
03:02:13 O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe
03:11:57 Dost know this water-fly?
03:20:13 (FANFARE)
03:31:24 Such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed2,696
Dialogue density12.8 lines / min
First line00:00:51
Final line03:31:24

Production Record

DirectorRodney Bennett
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes673