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Equus
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Writer: Peter Shaffer
- Producer: Denis Holt; Elliott Kastner
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One of the most important plays of the last century.
Without doubt...every male drama student's dream role - even Harry Potter did it on the West End, showing off his willy to all and sundry.
This is an intense film.
It most definitely is not for everyone.
It does lose the power of the stage - but, it still hits you between the eyes with a mighty punch.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Cast & Characters
Richard Burton as Martin Dysart;
Peter Firth as Alan Strang;
Colin Blakely as Frank Strang;
Joan Plowright as Dora Strang;
Harry Andrews as Harry Dalton;
Eileen Atkins as Hesther Saloman;
Jenny Agutter as Jill Mason;
Kate Reid as Margaret Dysart;
John Wyman as Horseman;
Elva Mai Hoover as Miss Raintree;
Ken James as Mr. Pearce;
Patrick Brymer as Hospital Patient;
Sufi Bukhari as 2nd Child;
David Gardner as Dr. Bennett;
James Hurdle as Mr. Davies