NEW MOVIES Doctor Faustus Lots of grads bring their wives back to the old school and ham it up for home movies — but this is ridiculous. Richard Burton is charging admission. The Burton version of ...
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.
Faustus (Richard Burton) is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure ...