Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet
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The question used to be: Can Shakespeare's plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all. But Henry raised another question that it could not answer: Can the screen cope with Shakespeare at his best? Olivier undertook to answer that one, too. One evening next week, at simultaneous previews in Manhattan and Hollywood,* the first U.S. audiences will see the result.
The answer is yes. The screen is indeed adequate to Shakespeare at his...
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