Overview
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
- Richard Burton as Hamlet
- Hume Cronyn as Polonius
- Alfred Drake as Claudius
- Eileen Herlie as Gertrude
- William Redfield as Guildenstern
- George Rose as First Gravedigger
- George Voskovec as Player King
- Hugh Alexander as Cornelius / Second Gravedigger / English Ambassador
- Philip Coolidge as Voltimand
- Christopher Culkin as Player Queen