Hamlet

Patrick Macnee

John Laurie

Esmond Knight

Anthony Quayle

Niall MacGinnis

Harcourt Williams

Patrick Troughton

Tony Tarver

Peter Cushing

Stanley Holloway

Russell Thorndike

Basil Sydney

Eileen Herlie

Laurence Olivier

Norman Wooland

Felix Aylmer

Terence Morgan

Jean Simmons

Anthony Bushell

Patricia Davidson

Doreen Lawrence

Christopher Lee

Desmond Llewelyn

Victor Lucas

How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?

For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Hamlet can be found here.

Which of Hamlet's soliloquies have been cut?

Some, but not much, of the "O that this too,too solid flesh would melt" speech is cut. Nearly all of the "O what a rogue and pleasant slave am I" speech is cut; the only two lines retained from it are "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King". The entire "How all occasions do inform against me" speech, which comes just before the intermission in Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" (1996), is gone from the Olivier version. And some of the '' 'Tis now the very witching time of night" speech is cut. The only long speech of Hamlet's that is retained complete in the film is (what else?) the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, perhaps the most famous speech that Shakespeare ever wrote.

Which of the Ghost's lines have been cut?

The lines in which the Ghost refers to the punishments he has to suffer in Purgatory have been omitted. The Ghost is in Purgatory because he died without receiving the Last Rites.