Ulysses (film)

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Ulysses
Directed by	Joseph Strick
Produced by	Joseph Strick
Written by	Fred Haines Joseph Strick
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
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Ulysses is a film shot in 1967 and based on James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

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. There have been other movies based on Ulysses 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. It was perhaps the first motion picture to use the word "fuck" (another contender being I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname). In New Zealand, screeners were required to show the film before gender-segregated audiences. It was not approved for general release in the Republic of Ireland until 2000; however, it was screened at the Irish Film Institute (a private film club) in the 1970s.