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Oedipus the King is a 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex, directed and co-written by Philip Saville. It stars Christopher Plummer as the title character , Orson Welles as Tiresias , Lilli Palmer as Jocasta , Richard Johnson as Creon and Donald Sutherland as the leading member of the Chorus , though the latter's ...
With Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Orson Welles. This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
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An oracle predicts the Theban king (Christopher Plummer) will slay his father and defile his mother (Lilli Palmer) in Sophocles' tragedy.
Brief Synopsis. This classic (Greek) tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father (deliberately) and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Peculiar western romance with Rita Tushingham as a mute in 19th century British Columbia taken in by hunter Oliver Reed. This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
