Description |
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
System Details |
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital mono, widescreen presentation, original theatrical aspect ratio 1.85:1. |
Credits |
Photography, Roger Barlow ; film editor, Richard C. Meyer ; music composed and conducted by Louis Applebaum ; music for chorus, Cedric Thorpe Davie ; masks, Tania Moisewitsch, Jacqueline Cundall. |
Cast |
Douglas Campbell (Oedipus), Eleanor Stuart (Jocasta), Robert Goodier (Creon), William Hutt (Chorus Leader), Donald Davis (Tirasias), Douglas Rain (Messenger), Tony van Bridge (Man from Corinth), Eric House (Shepherd/Old Priest), Gertrude Tyas (Nurse), Naomi Cameron (Ismene), Barbara Franklin (Antigone). |
Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Summary |
The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people. |
Language |
Closed-captioned. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Film adaptations.
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Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) (OCoLC)fst01043940
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Greek drama (Tragedy) (OCoLC)fst00947146
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Genre/Form |
Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Tragedies.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
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Added Author |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
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Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971, film director.
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Kipnis, Leonid, 1899-1968, film producer.
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Campbell, Douglas, 1922-2009, actor.
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Stuart, Eleanor, actor.
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Rain, Douglas, actor.
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Goodier, Robert, actor.
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Hutt, William, 1920-2007, actor.
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Davis, Donald, 1928-1998, actor.
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Van Bridge, Tony, 1917-2004, actor.
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House, Eric, actor.
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Tyas, Gertrude, actor.
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Cameron, Naomi, actor.
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Franklin, Barbara, actor.
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Applebaum, Louis, 1918-2000, composer, conductor.
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Thorpe Davie, Cedric, 1913-1983.
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Barlow, Roger, 1912-1990, director of photography.
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Meyer, Richard C., 1920-1985 editor of moving image work.
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Sophocles.
Oedipus Rex. English.
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Sophocles.
Oedipus Rex.
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Image Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
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Stratford Festival (Ont.), production company.
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Note |
Title on container: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex |
Standard No. |
014381154924 |
Music No. |
ID1549CODVD Image Entertainment |
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