Ulysses (1967 film)

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Ulysses
Ulysses (1967 film dvd cover).jpg
DVD cover
Directed by Joseph Strick
Produced by Joseph Strick
Screenplay by Fred Haines
Joseph Strick
Based on Ulysses 
by James Joyce
Starring Barbara Jefford
Milo O'Shea
Music by Stanley Myers
Cinematography Wolfgang Suschitzky
Editing by Reginald Mills
Distributed by British Lion Films
Release date(s) March 14, 1967 (USA)
June 1967 (UK)
Running time 132 min.
Country UK
USA
Language English
Box office $2,300,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Ulysses is a 1967 British-American drama film based on James Joyce's novel Ulysses. It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen in the Dublin of 1904.

Starring Milo O'Shea as Leopold Bloom, Barbara Jefford as Molly Bloom, Maurice Roëves as Stephen Dedalus, T. P. McKenna as Buck Mulligan and Sheila O'Sullivan as May Golding Dedalus, it was adapted by Fred Haines and Joseph Strick, and directed by Strick. Haines and Strick shared an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.[2]

There have been other films based on Ulysses[which?][citation needed] but this one stands out for its fidelity to the book and the fact that almost the entire screenplay is taken from lines in the book.[citation needed] It was perhaps[weasel words] the first motion picture to use the word "fuck" (another contender being I'll Never Forget What's'isname).[citation needed]

The film was shot on location in Dublin on a modest budget.[2] It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.[3] Festival organizers deleted some of the French subtitles without informing the director.[2] When Strick noticed the deletions during the film's screening, "he stood up and yelled out that this film had been censored," Strick's son David told the Los Angeles Times.[2] "He went upstairs to the projection booth and turned off the switches. He was then pushed down a flight of stairs by festival goons. My father and his associates withdrew the film immediately from the festival," David Strick said.[2]

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Cast [edit]

Censorship History [edit]

Ulysses was originally rated 'X' in the UK after extensive cuts were demanded by BBFC censor John Trevelyan. However director Joseph Strick replaced the offending dialogue with a series of screeches and sounds, thus rendering the scenes unintelligible. Eventually the film was released uncut in 1970, and the rating was reduced to '15' for the video release in 1996. [4]

In New Zealand the film was originally restricted to adults over 18 in gender-segregated audiences.[5] The rating was reduced to 'M' (suitable for mature audiences over 16) in the 1990s.[6]

The film was not approved for general release in Ireland until 2000; however, it was screened at the Irish Film Theatre (a private film club) in the 1970s.[citation needed]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
  2. ^ a b c d e McLellan, Dennis (2010-06-04). "McLellan, Dennis. (2010, June 4). ''Joseph Strick dies at 86; independent filmmaker brought 'Ulysses' to big screen''. The Los Angeles Times". Latimes.com. Retrieved 2011-02-13. 
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Ulysses". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-03-11. 
  4. ^ "British Board of Film Classification". Retrieved 2011-01-04. 
  5. ^ Brittenden, Wayne. The Celluloid Circus: The Heyday of the New Zealand Picture Theatre. New Zealand: Godwit (Random House), 2008, p. 134. ISBN 978-1-86962-146-9
  6. ^ "Film & Video Labelling Body of New Zealand". Retrieved 2011-01-04. 

External links [edit]

The novel Ulysses by James Joyce
Characters
Locations
Analysis
Adaptations
Other
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