Review – Doctor Faustus

I think if this was actually a stage production of Christopher Marlowe’s version of this tale, it wouldn’t be so bad. But it isn’t a live performance. It’s a movie. And as a movie it sucks. Marlowe isn’t Shakespeare, as the deadly dullness of this should-be-entertaining tale attests. And though Richard Burton and a largely silent Elizabeth Taylor head the cast, most everyone else appears to be a stage actor. Watching the dreary doctor get dragged off to Hell in the end has some minor entertainment value, if only because it meant the movie was finally drawing to a conclusion. The rest of the picture is strange and poorly-assembled. See if desperate