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| 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 |
Ulysses is a 1967 British-American drama film 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. Haines and Strick shared an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.[1]
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).
The film was shot on location in Dublin on a modest budget.[1] It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.[2] Festival organizers deleted some of the French subtitles without informing Strick.[1] 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.[1] "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.[1]
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Ulysses was originally rated 'X' by the British censors even after cuts. The rating was reduced to '15' in 1996. [3]
In New Zealand the film was originally restricted to adults over 18 in gender-segregated audiences.[4] The rating was reduced to 'M' (suitable for mature audiences over 16) in the 1990s.[5]
The film 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.
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