Oedipus Rex 1957 | Color Movie | Douglas Campbell | Sophocles play | Drama

Excellent production. Riveting, gripping, totally absorbing. It will linger with me. Love the use of masks. It gives a sense of what an original production might have been like, and enhances the drama. Thanks for posting!

These Masks are fantastic ❤

damn this is deep

Yes, thank you! I've been trying to find this version forever.

The acting on this is just next level

Sublime

a true masterpiece. better than any movie released today.

a solid 5/10

Greek tragedy at its best. The masks are amazing!

''call no man fortunate that is not dead, the dead are free''

It's only because I know what the story of Oedipus is about is why I can glean understand what is being said and meant.

This is absolute master piece displayed in It's outmost form

Which one was Willman Shatner?

From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood
There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim

There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's index
'Cause he loved his mother

His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother

Yes, he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out, one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother

So be sweet and kind to mother now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat
But maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex, complex
And you may end up like Oedipus
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex

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Something's always up with the comment section of these videos

MAN i dont wanna have to watch this for class.

It’s really the story of people who are happy with their lives, or their beliefs or their family or anything they view positively without knowing the history about how all they love came to be.

The message is Truth turns destroys joy.

It's wonderful that someone put up a higher quality video of this.

A wonderful production of perhaps the world's greatest drama. First put on stage in 424 BC - Sophocles was then 72 years old - one of the most interesting and wisest persons who ever lived. To anyone who loves Attic Tragedy, this is one of the best. 76 years after the filming this remains a real classic for the ages.

O melhor de todos é do Pasolini

I had to watch this for theatre very interesting to say the least

i love this

The golden age of theater, I truly miss these great creations. They will never be forgotten and I will pass these wonderful memories.

Unbelievable that these words are all over 2000 years old.

William Hutt and William Shatner within the first three minutes!

This is excellent beatnik fodder.

Was there a written documentation of the acting style of the Classic Greek Theatre? Not counting paintings on jars...

I remember reading this in the 9th grade!

Sophocles performed/distorted by...Canadians? What a HYBRIS to the masterpiece. You cannot even pronounce ΔΕΛΦΟΙ correctly. Barbarians, stick to your stuff.

Merci thanks à lot cult est-ce que tu aurais le film en français je suis prof de français ça serait peut-être pour ma classe😊

It' s great to see that in ancient theatre with greek actress.

Very interesting, thank you

Pretty sure that’s Shatner right at the start

Does anyone else think the creators of Futurama based their acting robots off of this film? Lol

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William Hutt doing the prologue, with a 26 year old William Shatner handing him his character mask.

FUN FACT: The part of The Messenger is played by actor Douglas Rain; best known and most instantly recognizable as the voice of HAL 9000 in 2001-A Space Odyssey.

Absolutely, riveting. It was worth the 50 + years wait for this Tyrone Guthrie production! It is so interesting how the intense stylization of presentation draws the viewer into a real that is more real than most that passes as such these days. I've seen quite a few productions of this and none of them approached the level of TRAGEDY that this version most certainly does. This was absolutely gripping for me from beginning to end. Thank you again for posting.

I wonder if Zack Snyder was ever inspired by the visuals of this play? 🤔

WHAAAAA?!! I remember looking at stills of this work on my school textbook of literature, BUT never knew it came from an actual movie! Cool!😮

It's like watching a Doctor Who episode in the Tom Baker era.

William Shatner! Shatner hands the robes to the Narrator in the opening prologue of this film. My Intro to Theater prof showed us this film and pointed to Shatner.

Oedipus Rex, a brilliant adaptation of an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. ❤

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change. - Marquis de Sade

i enjoyed this the way the play was done originally in greece an unique and unusual way to see the play in modern times🙂

A young William Shatner is supposedly behind one of those masks.