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Bookmark this pageOedipus the King (1967)
Director: Philip Saville
Movie review
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
Cast & crew
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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