Hamlet (1974 film)

Hamlet is a 1974 filmed adaptation of John Bell and Richard Wherrett's theatre production of the play.

Cast

 * John Bell as Hamlet
 * Jeff Ashby as Claudius
 * Max Cullen as Polonius and gravedigger
 * Ken Lawrence as Marcellus, Fortinbras
 * Roger Newcombe as Laertes and Guildenstern
 * John Paramor as Rosencrantz and Horatio
 * Anna Volska as Ophelia
 * Beverly Phillips as Gertrude
 * Michael Rolfe
 * Wayne Phelan

Production
The text was reduced to 150 minutes with 21 characters played by a cast of ten. It was filmed less than a year before it aired.

It was one of a series of play productions the ABC filmed around 1972 to 1974.