The Times (24/Mar/1936) - Hamlet as a film

(c) The Times (24/Mar/1936)

• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Laughton, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, Hamlet, London Film Productions, Robert Donat, Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Sylvia Sidney

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"HAMLET" AS A FILM

MR. DONAT'S PART IN BRITISH PRODUCTION

The second Shakespeare play to be filmed by a British company will be Hamlet, which will be made by London Film Productions, Limited, with Mr. Robert Donat in the name part. The adaptation will be made by Mr. Miles Malleson, who will direct the film with the help of Mr. W. Cameron Menzies. No date has yet been fixed for its production, as Mr. Donat is at present appearing on the stage in Red Night.

Mr. Charles Laughton is to appear in three new films to be made by the same company. The first will probably be Lion of Mayfair in which Mr. Laughton will be seen as a maitre d'hotel. His second picture will be based on the life of Rembrandt, and his third, either I Claudius, from the novel by Mr. Robert Graves, or Cyrano de Bergerac.

M. René Clair, whose first English film, The Ghost Goes West, is now generally released, is to make two more pictures for Mr. Alexander Korda. Sabotage has been chosen as the title for the film version of Conrad's "Secret Agent", which Mr. Alfred Hitchcock is to direct at the Gaumont British Studios, with Miss Sylvia Sidney in the cast.

The Day of a Great Adventure, a Polish film about the adventures of Boy Scouts in the Tatra Mountains while rounding up a gang of cocaine smugglers, will be the main attraction of the Film Society's programme at the New Gallery Cinema on Sunday afternoon. Among the short subjects will be The Earth Worm, made under the supervision of Mr. Julian Huxley and Mr H. R. Hewer.