A hawk from a handsaw hamlet in film.

Hamlet (J. Arthur Rank Films, 1948) Hamlet (BBC, 1980) Hamlet (Warner Brothers, 1990) Hamlet (Columbia Pictures, 1996) Hamlet (Double A Films, 2000) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Cinecom Pictures, 1990) A Hawk from a Handsaw: Hamlet in Film "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." --Hamlet, Act II, scene ii Hamlet is arguably both the greatest play in the English language and perhaps the most film-adapted tale of all. A work …

…which we all understand in a situation we would not like to see ourselves. In short, he's an entertaining sod. His story is never boring and it ends with all major (and most minor) characters visiting "the undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns." A modern producer would probably call it "Ordinary People meets Reservoir Dogs" and then complain that there's no room for a sequel. ("Can't we do something with that Fortinbras guy?")