We don’t have a film version of Gielgud’s Hamlet for posterity but we do have this superb radio version – adapted by Gielgud himself. He’s wonderful, believably neurotic and insane, and so good with the words – has anyone ever spoken the verse better? He's given superb support from Pamela Brown as mother; Dorothy McGuire lends some Hollywood glamour as Ophelia. It goes for an hour and 20 minutes and it's all wonderful.
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