A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene..
Is this worth your time? If you have a thing for old Hollywood curiosities or you just really like watching John Barrymore work through a script, sure. If you aren't into theater-on-film or 1930s lighting, you'll probably find this dry as toast. It’s barely a movie, really. It’s a screen test. It feels like someone tu...
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"Is this worth your time? If you have a thing for old Hollywood curiosities or you just really like watching John Barrymore work through a script, sure. If you aren't into theater-on-film or 1930s lighting, you'll probably find this dry as toast. It’s barely a movie, really. It’s a screen test. It feels like someone turned on a camera in a dusty attic to see if the colors would hold up. The whole thing has this weird, ghostly quality—fitting, given the subject matter. John Barrymore is doing th..."
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