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Oedipus the King (1967)

Director: Philip Saville

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From Time Out Film Guide

Screamingly tedious version of the Sophocles tragedy in which the cast progress from poetic mouthing to ferocious ranting as they shuffle around the ruins of a Greek amphitheatre. Even Welles, looking like Santa Claus on leave from a disreputable department store in woolly wig and sackcloth nightie, seems subdued in his brief appearance as Tiresias.

Author: TM

Time Out Film Guide

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Director: Philip Saville

Producer: Michael Luke

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Orson Welles, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland, Friedrich Ledebur full cast

Duration: 97 mins


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