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A silent film very loosely based on Shakespeare's theme. In a short prologue, we see that the Danes are fighting the Norwegians, and they win. But the Danish King appears to be mortally wounded. The queen is in labour, and their first child is born. She hopes for a boy, to continue the family line, but it is a girl. An attendant suggests that she should announce that a boy has been born, and then everything will be all right.
She does so, and then in one of those sudden reversals that silent films were subject to, we find that the King is safe and well after all, but it is too late to alter the announcement.
The girl is therefore brought up by them as a boy -- not very convincingly in this picture.
Young Hamlet goes to the university at Wittenberg, and romantic complications develop when a possible bride is produced for "him".
HF July 2007
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