Sidney Lumet, from stage to screen
The Offence and Equus, two play adaptations from the 1970s, now available in excellent Blu-ray editions, highlight Sidney Lumet’s strengths and weaknesses as a […]
Review: Equus (1977)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely,
Richard Burton
Peter Firth
Joan Plowright
Harry Andrews
Colin Blakely
Plot: 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.
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