Doctor Faustus (1967 film)

Doctor Faustus
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Burton
Nevill Coghill
Screenplay byNevill Coghill
Based onThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
Produced byRichard Burton
Richard McWhorter
Starring
CinematographyGábor Pogány
Edited byJohn Shirley
Music byMario Nascimbene
Color processTechnicolor
Production
companies
  • Nassau Films
  • Oxford University Screen Productions
  • Venfilms
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 19 October 1967 (1967-10-19) (United Kingdom)
  • 6 February 1968 (1968-02-06) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Latin

Doctor Faustus (also known as Dr. Faustus and Il Dottor Faustus) is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill.[2] The first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it was the only film directed by Burton or Coghill, Burton's Oxford University mentor.[3] It starred Burton as the title character Faustus, with Elizabeth Taylor appearing in a silent role as Helen of Troy. The film is a permanent record of a stage production that Burton starred in and staged with Coghill at the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1966. Burton would not appear on stage again until he took over the role of Martin Dysart in Equus on Broadway ten years later.

  1. ^ "DOCTOR FAUSTUS (X)". British Board of Film Classification. 26 July 1967. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Doctor Faustus". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  3. ^ Bevington, David (2010). "The Performance History". In Sara Munson Deats (ed.). Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide. A&C Black. pp. 41–71. ISBN 9781847061386.