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Hamlet ***** (1948, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Holloway, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3647
Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]
Richard III ****½ (1955, Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Stanley Baker, Alec Clunes, Pamela Brown, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 3646
Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film triumph is his third William Shakespeare adaptation as star and director, following Henry V (1944) and Hamlet (1948). There were three 1956 Bafta wins – for Best British Actor, Best British Film and Best Film […]
Pride and Prejudice ***½ (1940, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Ann Rutherford, Maureen O’Sullivan, Heather Angel, Marsha Hunt, Melville Cooper, E E Clive, Claud Alister) – Classic Movie Review 3587
Jane Austen’s best-loved novel is effectively dramatised via a stage version and brought to the screen smoothly by director Robert Z Leonard in 1940, as the brash and brassy MGM studio meets refined and reluctant […]
Othello **** (1965, Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3,339
Stage director John Dexter’s legendary acclaimed Chichester Festival and National Theatre of Great Britain production of Othello is plainly transferred to film by director Stuart Burge, but it is nevertheless a compelling experience. It records […]
Wuthering Heights ***** (1939, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 2959
Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]
The Prince and the Showgirl *** (1957, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Jeremy Spenser, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 2653
Laurence Olivier directs Marilyn Monroe in England in 1957 in this patchy but pleasant romantic comedy that by and large manages the odd trick of joining together of two very different screen legends and two […]
The Entertainer ***** (1960, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 2527
Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]