Hamlet Made over
- Alternative title
- Hamlet Up-To-Date
- Synopsis
- Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance routine with six little girls while Polonious wears a top hat and appears as a magician. Ophelia is made up as Yum Yum and recites ‘Curfew shall not ring tonight’, the asbestos is lowered onto Hamlet’s neck making him a target and finally he is tarred and feathered.
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Silent
- Year of release
- 1916
- Recording date
- 4 Mar 1916
- Duration
- 11 mins; 1000 feet
- Availability
- No archive copy found, presumed a lost film.
Credits
- Director
- Earl Metcalfe
- Screenplay
- Mark Swan
- Cast
Billie Reeves The tragedian Carrie Reynolds The girl Clarence J. Elmer The King William H. Turner The manager
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Douglas Lanier ‘Film Spin-offs and Citations’ in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (p. 148, entry 604) credits the writer as Mack Sennett; Ball cites Mark Swan as writer.
- History
- Released in the UK August 21 1916 with the title HAMLET UP-TO-DATE.
- Reviews
- Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p. 219).
Moving Picture World March 4 1916 (summary and advertisement); March 8 (comment).McKernan, Luke and Olwen Terris. Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive. London: BFI, 1994
Production Company
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Hamlet Made over". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68546 (Accessed 19 Sep 2024)