Movie
Equus
Overview
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, 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, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Details
- Release date
- 1977-10-16
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Winkast Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Burton as Martin Dysart
- Peter Firth as Alan Strang
- Joan Plowright as Dora Strang
- Harry Andrews as Harry Dalton
- Colin Blakely as Frank Strang
- Eileen Atkins as Hesther Saloman
- Jenny Agutter as Jill Mason
- Kate Reid as Margaret Dysart
- John Wyman as Horseman
- Elva Mai Hoover as Miss Raintree
- Patrick Brymer as Hospital Patient
- Ken James as Mr. Pierce
Crew
- Sidney Lumet - Director
- Peter Shaffer - Writer
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