Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- horse
- psychiatrist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- 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
- Directed
- Sidney Lumet
- Written
- Peter Shaffer
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 145 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Winkast Film Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
