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Doctor Faustus [videorecording (DVD)].

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Columbia Pictures Corporation : distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2004].

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Mephistopheles (Legendary character) -- Drama.

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Magicians -- Drama.

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Dr. Faustus [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (92 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Adapted from Christopher Marlowe's The tragical history of Doctor Faustus.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.

"The classic truth of good and evil"--Container.

Filmed at Oxford University in 1966.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Korean.

Closed-captioned.

Start -- Doctor Faustus -- Reward of sin is death -- Necromantic books -- "Go forward, Faustus" -- Valdes & Cornelius -- Conjuring alone -- Mephistopheles -- "Trust in Belzebub" -- Bequeathing his soul -- Conditions -- "Hell hath no limits" -- Fairest maidens in Germany -- "Thou are damned!" -- Lucifer -- Lechery -- Avarice -- Pride, wrath & envy -- Alexander & his paramour -- Knight -- Pope's privy council -- Man condemned to die -- Helen -- "Thou traitor, Faustus" -- His heart's desire -- Grown into some sickness -- Faustus repents -- Gone to hell.

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 ; music composed and conducted by Mario Nascimbene ; production design by John de Cuir ; costumes designed by Peter Hall.

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).

"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.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Burton, Richard, 1925-1984.

Coghill, Nevill, 1899-

Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Doctor Faustus. Film adaptations.

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