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Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Faustus 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 Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes9%
Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do.
28 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard BurtonDirector
- Nevill CoghillDirector
- Mario NascimbeneOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Richard BurtonDoctor Faustus
- Elizabeth TaylorHelen of Troy
- Richard DurdenEvil Angel/Knight
- Andreas TeuberMephistopheles
- Ian MarterPride/Emperor
- Michael MenaughGood Angel/Bishop
- Ram ChopraValdes
- Richard CarwardineCornelius
- Patrick BarwiseWagner
- David McIntoshLucifer
- Jeremy EcclesBelzebub
- Maria AitkenSloth