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Doctor Faustus (1967)
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6 February 1968 (USA)
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The story of a scientist who sells his soul to the devil
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A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves. full summary | add synopsis
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A movie to cherish...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Burton | ... | Doctor Faustus | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Helen of Troy | |
| Andreas Teuber | ... | Mephistopheles | |
| Ian Marter | ... | Emperor | |
| Elizabeth O'Donovan | ... | Empress | |
| David McIntosh | ... | Lucifer | |
| Jeremy Eccles | ... | Belsebub | |
| Ram Chopra | ... | Valdes | |
| Richard Carwardine | ... | Cornelius | |
| Richard Heffer | ... | Disciple #1 | |
| Gwydion Thomas | ... | Scholar / Lechery | |
| Richard Durden | ... | Knight (as Richard Durden-Smith) | |
| Patrick Barwise | ... | Wagner | |
| Adrian Benjamin | ... | Pope | |
| Jeremy Chandler | ... | Attendant |
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93 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.78 : 1 more
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Australia:PG |
Singapore:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG (video rating) |
UK:X (original rating) (1990) |
USA:Unrated
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For the secondary roles, director Richard Burton, an Oxford graduate, cast drama students from Oxford University.
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[Mephistopheles has come to Faustus' study]
Doctor Faustus: Where are you damned?
Mephistopheles: In hell.
Doctor Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. / Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God / And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells / In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
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Doctor Faustus: Where are you damned?
Mephistopheles: In hell.
Doctor Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. / Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God / And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells / In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
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Referenced in How I Created Doctor Faustef (2008) (V)
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How does the movie end?What was the first thing Faustus asked of Mephistophilis after signing the contract?
Is the Faustus character based on a real person?
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Thank God, Richard Burton did this film. A man who was unjustly considered a sell-out, he did this first on stage and then for film with all profits of both productions going to Oxford. Yes, it's cheaply designed and theatrical, with an distracting music score...but when else will you see a film of Marlowe's play with an actor as great playing the part?
I realize the film has its shortcomings, but its virtues are also plainly evident. Those who dismiss it a just a bad film strike me as a bunch of gluttonous clods or anti-intellectual pismires. It's a movie to cherish.