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Doctor Faustus, Tyburn Entertainment presents ; Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; adapted for the screen by Nevill Coghill ; produced by Richard Burton and Richard McWhorter ; directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill

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Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Doctor Faustus

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Filmed at Oxford University in 1966

Tyburn Entertainment presents ; Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; adapted for the screen by Nevill Coghill ; produced by Richard Burton and Richard McWhorter ; directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill

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"A tragic legend written down in the sixteenth century wherein a learned scientist honoured with the laurels of his university, sold his soul to the devil for still greater knowledge and power in the unknown."--Title screen. Deeply unsatisfied with God's decree that the reward of sin is death, Dr. John Faustus, a scholar at Wittenberg, opts to cut a deal with Lucifer. The contract--signed in Faustus's blood--stipulates that the doctor receive the services of Lucifer's lackey, Mephistopheles, for a period of 24 years, during which he has access to all knowledge, beauty, power as well as returned youth. In exchange, Lucifer receives Faustus's renunciation of Christ and, at the end of the 24 years, the doctor's soul, which he may torment in the pit of Hell for all eternity

Start -- Doctor Faustus -- Reward of sin is death -- Necromantic books -- "Go forward, Faustus" -- Valdes & Cornelius -- Conjuring alone -- Mephistopheles -- "Trust in Belzebub" -- Bequeathing his soul -- Conditions -- "Hell hath no limits" -- Fairest maidens in Germany -- "Thou are damned!" -- Lucifer -- Lechery -- Avarice -- Pride, wrath & envy -- Alexander & his paramour -- Knight -- Pope's privy council -- Man condemned to die -- Helen -- "Thou traitor, Faustus" -- His heart's desire -- Grown into some sickness -- Faustus repents -- Gone to hell

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