Directed by:
Sidney LumetCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
Richard Rodney BennettCast:
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter, Ken James, John Wyman, Brook Williams, Kate Reid (more)Plots(1)
A film adaptation of the play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth) who, in frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? (Sandpiper Pictures)
(more)Cast
![Richard Burton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/324/164324326_7daee6.jpg)
Richard Burton
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
![Peter Firth](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/218/162218503_f0f40c.jpg)
Peter Firth
UK
Best movies:
Hawking (2004) (TV movie)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
![Colin Blakely](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/093/886/93886016_61beff.jpg)
Colin Blakely
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
King Lear (1983) (TV movie)
![Joan Plowright](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269467_ec631f.jpg)
Joan Plowright
UK
Best movies:
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Moby Dick (1956)
Dinosaur (2000)
![Harry Andrews](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/653/164653269_647743.jpg)
Harry Andrews
UK
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
![Eileen Atkins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/205/163205153_f4d0a3.jpg)
Eileen Atkins
UK
Best movies:
Cold Mountain (2003)
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
The Hours (2002)
![Jenny Agutter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/469/162469969_7a250d.jpg)
Jenny Agutter
UK
Best movies:
The Avengers (2012)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Irina Palm (2006)
Ken James
Best movies:
Cinderella Man (2005)
Flowers for Algernon (2000) (TV movie)
Equus (1977)
John Wyman
Best movies:
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Equus (1977)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
![Brook Williams](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/610/161610327_d0ed9a.gif)
Brook Williams
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
![Kate Reid](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/337/163337560_9c8892.jpg)
Kate Reid
UK
Best movies:
Death of a Salesman (1985) (TV movie)
Murder in the Heartland (1993) (TV movie)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Elva Mai Hoover
Best movies:
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) - a.f.
Equus (1977)
Class of 1984 (1982)
Mark Parr
Best movies:
Equus (1977)
The Search for Santa Paws (2010)
Back in Action (1994)