Equus is a 1977 psychological drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter. 1 Video 33 Photos Drama Mystery A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses. Director Sidney Lumet Writer Peter Shaffer Stars Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely See production info at IMDbPro RENT/BUY search Amazon Add to Watchlist Added by 13.0K users 73 User reviews 50 Critic reviews
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Brief Synopsis A psychoanalyst tries to help a young man who blinded a stable full of horses. Cast & Crew Read More Sidney Lumet Director Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely Joan Plowright Elva Hoover Miss Raintree Photos & Videos View All Film Details MPAA Rating Genre Drama Adaptation Release Date 1977 Technical Specs Duration 2h 17m Sound Reviews Equus Roger Ebert November 09, 1977 Tweet Horse and Peter Firth in "Equus." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch The blinding of horses is something that works a great deal better as stage symbolism than as cinematic fact, and that's one of the several things wrong with the way "Equus" has been brought to the screen. Sidney Arthur Lumet ( / luːˈmɛt / loo-MET; [1] June 25, 1924 - April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before transitioning to film where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas which focused on the working class, tackled social injustices and often questioned authority. Features Equus: Richard Burton's harrowing last hurrah Filmed when Richard Burton was in ill health, Sidney Lumet's biting film of Peter Shaffer's play Equus saw a fiercely committed plunge into the abyss from the ageing star, and one of his last great performances. 17 August 2020 By Adam Scovell Equus (1977)
Richard Burton, Peter Firth in Equus (1977) Director Sidney Lumet. Alfred Hitchcock, Peter
Director: Sidney Lumet Screenwriter: Peter Shaffer Cast: Richard Burton Peter Firth Colin Blakely Joan Plowright Harry Andrews Eileen Atkins Jenny Agutter Kate Reid 1977 Directed by Sidney Lumet I am yours and you are mine. A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. Sidney Lumet Director Richard Burton Cast Peter Firth Cast Colin Blakely Cast Joan Plowright Cast Peter Shaffer Screenplay, Play Oswald Morris Cinematography Richard Rodney Bennett Music A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. [Originally published in Movietone News 56, November 1977] Sidney Lumet was just the right director for Equus, and just the wrong one. His certified ability to entice performances of considerable force — if not always precision and coherence — is invaluable to the film version of a play that, however much "opened up" for the screen, still depends to an extraordinary degree on the.
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Equus (1977; Sidney Lumet) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes Adapted from a Tony Award-winning play by Peter Shaffer, Equus came at a seemingly perfect time for director Sidney Lumet to shepherd a prestige production to the screen. It's the terrible suspicion of Mr. Shaffer's Dr. Dysart that, by removing Alan Strang's demons, by returning him to "normal" life, he has removed the boy's passion forever, emotionally lobotomized.
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Sidney Lumet's film-dramatisation of Peter Shaffer's shocking stage-play "Equus", is an undeniably difficult, often overbearing but occasionally enlightening examination of the suppressed sexuality of a teenage boy brought up in a closeted household by two of the most repressed parents you could meet this side of Mary Whitehouse. Overview Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy's obsession is his mother, Joan Plowright, who has raised Firth with a convoluted set of values.
