Cast

Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Peter Ustinov Beau Bridges Leon Ames Leon Askin

Credits

Written by: Stanford Whitmore

Plot

A modern, satirical retelling of the Faust legend, in which a mental asylum patient, Hammersmith, makes a deal with a hospital orderly, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Sinekatalog’s take

A strange, satirical and uneven Faust update.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 5.3 / 10 (514 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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