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Plummer's 'Hamlet' should be made available!

posted 20 years ago by critic-2
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This is one of those Shakespeare productions which has, to my knowledge, not been shown on U.S. TV since its U.S. premiere! This is shocking for a film which was so widely praised. NET first showed it, but PBS, its direct descendant, never repeated it. Needless to say, it hasn't been issued on VHS or DVD, either. There is a clip from it on a new website, "Christopher Plummer Online" (not to be confused with "The Christopher Plummer Page"), and the film appears to be remarkably good condition.

Why some video company doesn't get up off their *** and put this film on video and DVD is beyond me.

[–] sarahbarmak 19 years ago

I totally ****ing agree!!

[–] polodachs-2 19 years ago

I too, would dearly love to have a copy of this production.

[–] killer_tray 18 years ago

we can hope that someone will see this a make a video of. i know how you feel, when i saw that there was absoluty no dvd or video of it, i freaked too. it's looks so great, Christopher Plummer and Micheal Caine,in the same movie,when they were young, come on its a best seller right there. who ever does it, may they go to heaven.lol.and they'll be rich.

[–] kendavies 18 years ago

I also remember seeing it on the BBC when it was first aired in 1964 (the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, which is doubtless how the funding was justified). Presumably it was on 16mm celluloid film, though it may also have been on videotape (which the BBC started using in the 1950s--another great British invention that was developed commercially in other countries, like jet planes, maglev trains, software-controlled computers, hovercraft, world wide web and all the rest). I'm sure there would be a good market for this DVD, so please, BBC, get working on it...

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