Doctor Faustus (film)

Doctor Faustus
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Burton Nevill Coghill
Produced by	Richard Burton Richard McWhorter
Written by	Nevill Coghill
Starring	Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Andreas Teuber
Music by	Mario Nascimbene
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Editing by	John Shirley
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1967
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United Kingdom

Doctor Faustus is a 1967 film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, written in 1588. The first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it starred and was directed by Richard Burton, (Nevill Coghill is also given credit for directing), who played the title character Faustus. Elizabeth Taylor made a silent cameo appearance as Helen of Troy, an appearance at which critics of the day invariably sneered. The overriding consensus of the critics was that the Oxford student Andreas Teuber stole the show as Mephistopheles.

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 wouldn't appear onstage again until he took over the role of Martin Dysart in Equus on Broadway ten years later.

External links

• Doctor Faustus at the Internet Movie Database