Hamlet

Trivia: Laurence Olivier (born 1907), who played Hamlet, was eleven years older than Eileen Hurlie (born 1918), who played his mother Gertrude.

Trivia: Laurence Olivier became the first person to direct himself into a Best Actor Academy Award with this movie.

Trivia: The first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Horatio: I have heard, the cock that is the herald to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day.

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