Equus

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire…

• Director:Sidney Lumet
• Genre:Drama | Horror | Mystery
• Runtime:137 minutes

Cast

Richard Burton : Martin Dysart
Peter Firth : Alan Strang
Colin Blakely : Frank Strang
Joan Plowright : Dora Strang
Harry Andrews : Harry Dalton

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, played by 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 (played by Peter Firth), the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father (Colin Blakely) and a genteel, religious mother (Joan Plowright). As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy’s demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own; Jenny Agutter played Jill Mason, Alan Strang’s girlfriend, with whom he shares an extended full frontal scene in front of the horses in a stable. Read more

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