Who’s Afraid of Dr. Faustus?

Not Richard Burton. And his money is on the line to prove it. How he goes about bringing Marlowe’s play to the screen is . . . well, read all about it

Richard Burton has a very snug little dressing room at the De Laurentiis studios near Rome. It’s really a big apartment, with another big apartment next door for Elizabeth Taylor. Air-conditioned, carpeted, deep gold velvet sink-in chairs, an antique table with so many bottles, all full, on it that every time Mephistopheles turns over to have his Stomach tickled there’s a crash of breaking glass. And a broad, green view of the Roman campagna.

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Not Richard Burton. And his money is on the line to prove it. How he goes about bringing Marlowe’s play to the screen is . . . well, read all about it

Richard Burton has a very snug little dressing room at the De Laurentiis studios near Rome. It’s really a big apartment, with another big apartment next door for Elizabeth Taylor. Air-conditioned, carpeted, deep gold velvet sink-in chairs, an antique table with so many bottles, all full, on it that every time Mephistopheles turns over to have his Stomach tickled there’s a crash of breaking glass. And a broad, green view of the Roman campagna.