Hamlet (1974 film)

Hamlet is a 1974 filmed adaptation of John Bell and Richard Wherrett's theatre production of the play.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p76Hamlet 1973 Australian theatre production details at Ausstage

Cast John Bell as Hamlet Jeff Ashby as Claudius Max Cullen as Polonius and gravedigger Ken Lawrence as Marcellus, Fortinbras Roger Newcombe as Laertes and Guildenstern John Paramor as Rosencrantz and Horatio Anna Volska as Ophelia Beverly Phillips as Gertrude Michael Rolfe Wayne Phelan

Production The text was reduced to 150 minutes with 21 characters played by a cast of ten. It was filmed less than a year before it aired.

It was one of a series of play productions the ABC filmed around 1972 to 1974.

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