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A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
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  • Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
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Martin Dysart
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Alan Strang
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Frank Strang
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Dora Strang
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Harry Dalton
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Hesther Saloman
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Jill Mason
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Margaret Dysart
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Horseman
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Miss Raintree
Ken James ...
Mr. Pearce
Patrick Brymer ...
Hospital Patient
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sufi Bukhari ...
2nd Child (uncredited)
David Gardner ...
Dr. Bennett (uncredited)
James Hurdle ...
Mr. Davies (uncredited)
Frazier Mohawk ...
Ringmaster (uncredited)
Mark Parr ...
Clown (uncredited)
Karen Pearson ...
Mary (uncredited)
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1st Child (uncredited)
Anita Van Hezewyck ...
Horse Trainer (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sidney Lumet

Written by

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Peter Shaffer ... (screenplay by)
 
Peter Shaffer ... (based upon the stage play by)

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Denis Holt ... associate producer
Elliott Kastner ... producer (produced by)
Lester Persky ... producer (produced by)

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Richard Rodney Bennett

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Oswald Morris ... director of photography

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John Victor Smith

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Harvey Rosenstock ... assistant editor
Peter Shatalow ... assistant editor

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Rose Tobias Shaw
Clare Walker

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Tony Walton

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Simon Holland

Costume Design by

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Tony Walton

Makeup Department

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Ron Berkeley ... makeup artist
Ken Brooke ... makeup artist
James Keeler ... hair stylist

Production Management

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Colin M. Brewer ... production supervisor (as Colin Brewer)
Bob Gray ... unit manager

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David Tringham ... assistant director

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Ninkey Adamson ... assistant art director
Guenter Bartlik ... scenic artist (as Gunther Bartlik)
Jack Carter ... construction controller
Gerry Holmes ... set dresser
Dave Jordan ... property supervisor
Lawrence Miller ... design assistant
Carol Spier ... assistant art director

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Jack Fitzstephens ... sound editor
Sanford Rackow ... sound editor
James Sabat ... sound mixer (as Jimmy Sabat)
Dick Vorisek ... re-recording mixer

Special Effects by

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Kit West ... special effects

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Maurice Arnold ... camera focus
Dennis Fraser ... camera grip
Ron Gillham ... key grip (as Ronnie Gillham)
Chris Holmes ... electrical gaffer
Matt Tundo ... camera operator
John Tythe ... electrical supervisor

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Brenda Dabbs ... wardrobe supervisor
Patti Unger ... wardrobe mistress

Music Department

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Angela Morley ... conductor

Additional Crew

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Yakima Canutt ... technical advisor
Arthur Carroll ... production accountant
Doug Doner ... wrangler
John Vanderpas ... wrangler
Sherry Wolfson ... production assistant
Bruce Moriarty ... horse wrangler (uncredited)
Bob Peak ... movie poster illustration (uncredited)
Iris Rose ... production secretary (uncredited)
Paul Schultz ... production assistant (uncredited)
Charles Wilder ... production accountant (uncredited)

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Harry Kerwin ... thanks: sequence from 'Sweet Bird of Aquarius' furnished by
Earl Wainwright ... thanks: sequence from 'Sweet Bird of Aquarius' furnished by
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Plot Summary

Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (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 (Peter Firth), 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. Written by Serenleono

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Taglines "I am yours and you are mine" See more »
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Also Known As
  • Fliehende Pferde (Germany)
  • Έκβους (Greece)
  • Эквус (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Jeździec (Poland)
  • Fliehende Pferde (West Germany)
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  • 137 min
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Budget $4,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Richard Burton, who was suffering from back pain and pinched nerves, recorded his eight monologues in one day. See more »
Goofs Some of the horses blinded in the final scene in the stable are obviously just puppets. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978). See more »
Soundtracks Motor City See more »
Quotes Martin Dysart: Moments snap together like magnets forged in a chain of shackles. Why? I can trace them, I can even with time pull them apart again. But why at the start were they ever magnetized at all. Why those particular moments of experience and no others, I do not know! And nor does ANY BODY ELSE! And if *I* don't know, if I can *never* know, what am I doing here? I don't mean clinically doing, or socially doing, but fundamentally. These whys, these questions, are fundamental. Yet they have no place in a consulting room. So then do I? Do any of us?
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