Doctor Faustus
Oct 10 1967
•2h 33m
•Mystery, Drama, Horror
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
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Richard Burton
Doctor Faustus
Elizabeth Taylor
Helen of Troy
Richard Durden
Evil Angel/Knight
Andreas Teuber
Mephistopheles
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