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I am yours and you are mine. - Equus
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Title: Equus

Release Date: 16 Oct 1977

Runtime: 2h 17m

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Winkast Film Productions

Production Companies: United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Winkast Film Productions

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.

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Average Vote: 7 (137 votes)

Cast

  • Martin Dysart: Richard Burton
  • Alan Strang: Peter Firth
  • Dora Strang: Joan Plowright
  • Harry Dalton: Harry Andrews
  • Frank Strang: Colin Blakely
  • Hesther Saloman: Eileen Atkins
  • Jill Mason: Jenny Agutter
  • Margaret Dysart: Kate Reid
  • Horseman: John Wyman
  • Miss Raintree: Elva Mai Hoover
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