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Equus is a 1977 psychological drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter.
Oct 20, 1977 · Equus: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright. A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Sidney Lumet
- 1977-10-20
The boy's masturbatory fantasies elaborate on his obsessions. His eyes fixed on the portrait of a horse that has become his fetish, he uses a coat hanger to spur himself to orgasm. And when he gets a job in a stable, he takes the horses out at night and stands for hours next to them, naked, sharing their presence.
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang (Peter Firth), the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother.
Dr. Martin Dysart (Richard Burton), a psychiatrist who has grown unhappy with his life, takes on the peculiar case of Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a reserved teenager who has been accused of ...
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- Sidney Lumet
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- Richard Burton
Dec 5, 2007 · Writer Peter Shaffer's inspiration for Equus (the name for the genus of animals to which horses belong) had been the true story of a Norfolk youth who blinded six racing horses who were the only witnesses to his role in a clandestine sexual act performed in a stable.
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Equus 1977A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.Director: Sidney LumetWriters: Peter Shaffer (play), Pe...
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