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Doctor Faustus

  • 19671967
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 33m
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5.4/10
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Doctor Faustus (1967)
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A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves.A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves.A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves.
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    • Richard Burton
    • Nevill Coghill
    • Christopher Marlowe(play "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus")
    • Nevill Coghill(adapted for the screen by)
    • Wolf Mankowitz(co-writer)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Richard Burton
    • Andreas Teuber
    • Richard Burton
    • Nevill Coghill
    • Christopher Marlowe(play "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus")
    • Nevill Coghill(adapted for the screen by)
    • Wolf Mankowitz(co-writer)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Richard Burton
    • Andreas Teuber
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 33User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Richard Burton, Richard Carwardine, and Ram Chopra in Doctor Faustus (1967)
    Elizabeth Taylor in Doctor Faustus (1967)
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    Doctor Faustus (1967)
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    Richard Heffer in Doctor Faustus (1967)
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Helen
    Richard Burton
    Richard Burton
    • Doctor Faustus
    Andreas Teuber
    Andreas Teuber
    • Mephistophilis
    Ram Chopra
    • Valdes
    Richard Carwardine
    • Cornelius
    Patrick Barwise
    • Wagner
    Michael Menaugh
    • Good Angel
    • (as Michael Meneaugh)
    • …
    Richard Durden
    Richard Durden
    • Evil Angel
    • (as Richard Durden-Smith)
    • …
    David McIntosh
    • Lucifer
    Jeremy Eccles
    • Belzebub
    Gwydion Thomas
    • Lechery
    Ian Marter
    Ian Marter
    • Pride…
    Nicholas Loukes
    • Envy…
    Adrian Benjamin
    • Pope
    Elizabeth O'Donovan
    • Empress
    Ambrose Coghill
    • Avarice
    Maria Aitken
    Maria Aitken
    • Sloth
    • (uncredited)
    Carolyn Bennitt
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
      • Richard Burton
      • Nevill Coghill
      • Christopher Marlowe(play "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus")
      • Nevill Coghill(adapted for the screen by)
      • Wolf Mankowitz(co-writer) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Dame Elizabeth Taylor's performance is entirely mute.
    • Goofs
      When Faustus anoints his head with blood there is one mark on his forehead, but when he is conjuring Mephistophilis, there are two blood marks.
    • Quotes

      Doctor Faustus: [speaking about Helen of Troy] Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

    • Connections
      Featured in Great Performances: Richard Burton: In from the Cold (1988)

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    6/10
    DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, 1967) **1/2
    Cerebral and altogether too-literal transcript of Christopher Marlowe’s venerable play – the end result is opulent yet claustrophobic, not to mention dull.

    Burton the producer/director certainly made inspired choices for his collaborators – production designer John De Cuir, cinematographer Gabor Pogany, composer Mario Nascimbene. Burton the actor, then, is riveting as always (particularly the monologue towards the end) – but real-life spouse Elizabeth Taylor is simply ludicrous as Faustus’ object of desire (in various disguises including Helen of Troy)! The remaining cast is largely made up of Oxford University drama students (the University itself, of which Burton was a former graduate, partly financed the film!): of these, only Andreas Teuber’s bald-headed, monk-clad Mephistopheles manages a striking performance.

    The “Mondo Digital” review had likened this to the cult horror films made by Hammer, Roger Corman and Mario Bava: judging by the campy Papal sequence (with a host of fey clergymen on whom Faustus plays childish pranks) and an equally tacky conjuring act before a medieval court, I’d say that Burton and Coghill probably drew more on the decadent work of Federico Fellini or Pier Paolo Pasolini than anything else! Anyway, the experimental nature of the film extends to the baffling over-use of a pointless ‘foggy’ effect; its depiction of lust, however, emerges as traditionally naïve – with frolicking satyrs in a garden setting and decorous female nudity (including Taylor herself for one very brief moment).

    Ulimately, DOCTOR FAUSTUS is to be considered an interesting failure – a personal tour-de-force for Burton but which, perhaps, needed a steadier hand…say, Joseph Losey (with whom the two stars would soon work on BOOM! [1968], curiously enough, a similar and equally maligned blend of fantasy and theatricality).
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    • Release date
      • February 6, 1968 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Nassau Films
      • Oxford University Screen Productions
      • Venfilms
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