Plot
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.
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
Patrick Brymer
Hospital Patient
Ken James
Mr. Pierce
Crew
Sidney Lumet
Director
Peter Shaffer
Writer
Elliott Kastner
Producer
Lester Persky
Producer
Oswald Morris
Director of Photography
Richard Rodney Bennett
Original Music Composer
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