Hamlet – Act I Scene V (1933)

USA, 1933
35mm film, 2-strip Technicolor, 1.37:1
mono, English

An American fantasy film directed by Margaret Carrington and Robert Edmond Jones.

Plot Summary

A screen test for a never-made version of Hamlet featuring the ghost scene.

Credits

Crew
Directors: Margaret Carrington, Robert Edmond Jones
Play: William Shakespeare

Cast
John Barrymore (Hamlet)
Donald Crisp (Marcellus)
Reginald Denny
Irving Pichel

Extracts included in
Shakespeare’s Women & Claire Bloom (1999)