This very different version of the Shakespearean story was shot in 1964 but unreleased until 1968, when Franco Zeffirelli's successful and more opulent rendition came out. It was made in Italian and dubbed into English, and the movie suffers for that. When one must deal in the long phrases
of Shakespeare, the loss of synchronization between the lips of the onscreen actors and the voice of the off-screen actors is shabby. The choice of voices is questionable as well; regional US accents are heard coming from the mouths of mainly Italian performers. Imagine Laurence Olivier with
Sylvester Stallone's voice playing Hamlet, and you'll have a small idea of what this soun...
Released:
1968
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins