Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Lost Masterpiece that Should Have Stayed Lost

My parents saw Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in '64, from which this original taping derives, and I was excited to see that this was available. But no amount of appreciation of Richard Bruton's incredible acting or Sir John Gielgud's perfect directing can salvage this DVD. I have a large collection of early cinema on DVD (and am used to blotchy film & lousy sound) but the quality of this is so poor as to make enjoyment impossible. Forget any nonsense you have heard about "theater in the raw" or "Hamlet stripped to the bare bones". This is unwatchable as the picture is so bad. The best you can do with this is turn the screen off & just listen to the dialogue. It will give you an inkling of the brilliance of Burton "live". For a great DVD version of Hamlet, look for the BBC Shakespeare Hamlet series with Sir Derek Jacobi as Hamlet. Expensive but worth the money.