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Doctor Faustus Director: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter

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  • DVD Release Date: 03/02/2004
  • Original Release: 1968
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 19,517
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Side #1 --
1. Start [2:40]
2. Doctor Faustus [3:05]
3. The Reward of Sin is Death [1:21]
4. Necromantic Books [2:14]
5. "Go Forward, Faustus" [2:23]
6. Valdes & Cornelius [5:02]
7. Conjuring Alone [2:38]
8. Mephistopheles [4:51]
9. "Trust in Belzebub" [2:00]
10. Bequeathing His Soul [5:49]
11. The Conditions [1:07]
12. "Hell Hath no Limits" [2:18]
13. The Fairest Maidens in Germany [2:12]
14. "Thou Art Damned" [4:23]
15. Lucifer [2:29]
16. Lechery [1:09]
17. Avarice [2:15]
18. Pride, Wrath & Envy [2:58]
19. Alexander & His Paramour [4:36]
20. The Knight [5:19]
21. The Pope's Privy Council [6:33]
22. A Man Condemned to Die [1:58]
23. Helen [3:47]
24. "Thou Traitor, Faustus" [1:31]
25. His Heart's Desire [2:54]
26. Grown Into Some Sickness [5:46]
27. Faustus Repents [3:45]
28. Gone to Hell [5:02]

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Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of Christopher Marlowe's 400-year-old verse play. Burton plays Faust, a medieval doctor who sells his soul to Mephistopheles (Andreas Teuber) in exchange for mastering all human knowledge. The Devil tempts Faust at every turn by confronting him with the seven deadly sins and Helen of Troy (Elizabeth Taylor), who appears throughout the film in various stages of undress as Doctor Faustus stands firm. The production was filmed in Rome, with the majority of the cast Oxford University amateur actors. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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April 05, 2004: Amateur supporting cast is right! Compared to Burton who does everything short of chewing on the set, the supporting cast is wooden, lifeless, and boring. Almost all traces of the Elizabethan low-comedy slapstick scenes have been removed (save one- the 'raspberry' scene in the Pope's dining room) and it makes what is left of the story sound ponderous. The special effects that were probably acceptable on stage look flat and unreal such as the flickering lighting on a skull and a statue that replace the Evil and Good angels in Faustus' study. There are Seven deadly sins- where are the other two??? What should be a spectacular scene where Lucifer makes a cameo appearance to stop Faustus from calling upon God is filmed through vaseline so the scene is dark and out-of-focus, lessening it's impact. Taylor, her 1960s glitter eye shadow and overdeveloped chest always prominently displayed probably had a lot of fun (as did Burton) but the fact that this was a 'vanity production' cannot be concealed. A real disappointment.

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August 21, 2002: This for me is the definitive 'Dr Faustus.' It is hardly noticeably abbreviated from the Marlowe text. There is a slight addition of the best lines from 'The Jew of Malta,' (''infinite riches in a little room''). Burton is quite magical as Faustus, and Andreas Truber makes a brilliant Mephistophiles. The stills of the two together, are justifiably famous. Elizabeth Taylor is pretty good too! The music is both good and memorable, although like all film scores, repetitive. I highly recommend it. If you are captivated by the Marlowe play, as I was, it is pretty compulsory.

This review was written about the VHS edition.