My Father was just out of the camera's vision recording the sound on a portable Uher Reporter 400 tape recorder. This was actually made at the forbidding Kronborg Castle where Shakespeare had Hamlet take place. I have walked through the rooms and halls many times, so watching the movies I can recognise which part of the castle is being used. The castle is also better known as the Elsinore Castle. The Brits (BBC) did the video and the Danes (DR) did the sound and my father was the recording engineer. Plummer is very proud of his Hamlet to this day - it is a more sensitive and nervously wrought performance than Hollywood normally portrays. More dimensional and curiously dynamic in a subtle way. He deserved the Emmy that he got. Bravo! The next movie he did after this was Sound of Music.
When I was fourteen, I saw this on television and I thought Hamlet was a dashing reckless emotive meditation of man's relation ship to his family, his kingdom and Christoper Plummer played it like a soap opera which as I am now older but still can appreciate the energy Christoper Plummer gives to the ancient tale of love and betrayal.
