Equus

Synopsis

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.

Release date

16 Oct 1977

Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Runtime

2h 17m

Cast

Richard Burton

Martin Dysart

Peter Firth

Alan Strang

Joan Plowright

Dora Strang

Harry Andrews

Harry Dalton

Colin Blakely

Frank Strang

Eileen Atkins

Hesther Saloman

Jenny Agutter

Jill Mason

Kate Reid

Margaret Dysart

John Wyman

Horseman

Elva Mai Hoover

Miss Raintree

PB

Patrick Brymer

Hospital Patient

Ken James

Mr. Pierce