 The fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had been included in the 1969 Nicol Williamson – Tony Richardson "Hamlet" and the 1990 Mel Gibson/Franco Zeffirelli version, both of which are shorter than Olivier's, did not help Olivier's rationale that the play needed such drastic cuts to work on screen.In contrast, Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film version of the complete "Hamlet" included everything that Olivier had omitted.However, the parts of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (and Osric) are reduced in the Richardson and Zeffirelli versions, and Branagh's version is almost 90 minutes longer than Olivier's - the length of an entire feature film.