Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Richard Burton's Hamlet [videorecording] / Paul Brownstein Productions ; directed by John Gielgud ; produced for the screen by William Sargent and Alfred W. Crown ; restoration producer Paul Brownstein.

Publisher, Date:

[S.l.] : Onward Production Ltd. and Paul Brownstein Productions ; Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c1999.

Description:

1 videodisc (191 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + program guide.

Summary:

Staged in rehearsal room and modern dress conditions, this is Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet. This play opened on Broadway April 9, 1964. This recording is not derived from a film, but from an attempt to simply record the stage show for one cinematic showing by placing cameras in the stalls during an actual performance.

Subjects:

Hamlet (Legendary character) -- Drama.

Princes -- Denmark -- Drama.

Murder -- Denmark -- Drama.

Revenge -- Drama.

English drama (Tragedy)

Other Author:

Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.

Sargent, William.

Crown, Alfred W.

Brownstein, Paul.

Burton, Richard, 1925-1984.

Cronyn, Hume.

Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992.

Herlie, Eileen.

Redfield, William, 1927-1976.

Rose, George, 1920-1988.

Voskovec, Jiří, 1905-1981.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Paul Brownstein Productions.

Onward Production Ltd.

Image Entertainment (Firm)

National Film and Television Archive (Great Britain)

Other Title:

Hamlet.

Notes:

Play by William Shakespeare.

"A theatrofilm made during an actual Broadway performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City"--Opening frame.

Filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York on June 30 and July 1, 1964.

"Film restoration in collaboration with the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute.--Container.

Interactive menus include filmographies and awards, trailer, chapter selections.

"Includes unseen interview footage"--Container.

Photographer, Bill Colleran ; editor, Bruce Pierce.

Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Rose, George Voskovec, John Gielgud, Robert Milli, John Cullum, Philip Coolidge, Hugh Alexander, Clement Fowler, Dillon Evans.

DVD, Dolby digital mono, NTSC.

Publisher Number:

ID5880PBDVD

Other Number:

42887648

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

226434

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 822.33 Hamlet

Medium:

[videorecording]