Doctor Faustus

Resource Information

The work Doctor Faustus represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Doctor Faustus

Statement of responsibility

Tyburn Entertainment presents ; Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; adapted for the screen by Nevill Coghill ; produced by Richard Burton and Richard McWhorter ; directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill

Creator

• Doctor Faustus (Motion picture : 1967)

Contributor

• Burton, Richard, 1925-1984
• Tyburn Entertainment (Firm)
• Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980
• Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• McWhorter, Richard
• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011

Actor

• Burton, Richard, 1925-1984
• Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011

Screenwriter

• Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980

Director

• Burton, Richard, 1925-1984
• Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980

Producer

• McWhorter, Richard
• Burton, Richard, 1925-1984

Subject

• Film adaptations
• Germany -- Drama
• Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Hell -- Drama
• Magicians -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Mephistopheles (Legendary character) -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Devil -- Drama
• Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films

Genre

• Film adaptations
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• fre
• kor
• eng

Summary

"A tragic legend written down in the sixteenth century wherein a learned scientist honoured with the laurels of his university, sold his soul to the devil for still greater knowledge and power in the unknown."--Title screen. Deeply unsatisfied with God's decree that the reward of sin is death, Dr. John Faustus, a scholar at Wittenberg, opts to cut a deal with Lucifer. The contract--signed in Faustus's blood--stipulates that the doctor receive the services of Lucifer's lackey, Mephistophilis, for a period of 24 years, during which he has access to all knowledge, beauty, power as well as returned youth. In exchange, Lucifer receives Faustus's renunciation of Christ and, at the end of the 24 years, the doctor's soul, which he may torment in the pit of Hell for all eternity

Cataloging source

VHB

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Gabor Pogany ; editor, John Shirley ; music composed and conducted by Mario Nascimbene ; production design by John de Cuir ; costumes designed by Peter Hall

Date time place

Filmed at Oxford University in 1966

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Language note

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Korean; closed-captioned

LC call number

PR2664.A21

LC item number

C64 2004

PerformerNote

Richard Burton (Doctor Faustus), Andreas Teuber (Mephistophilis), Ram Chopra (Valdes), Richard Carwardine (Cornelius), Patrick Barwise (Wagner), Michael Menaugh (Good angel & Bishop) Richard Durden-Smith (Evil angel & Knight), David McIntosh (Lucifer), Jeremy Eccles (Belzebub), Gwydion Thomas (Lechery) Ian Marter (Pride & Emperor), Nicholas Loukes (Envy & Cardinal of Lorraine), Adrian Benjamin (Pope), Elizabeth O'Donovan (Empress), Elizabeth Taylor (Helen of Troy)

Runtime

92

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action