Galileo (Original title)Bertolt Brecht's Galileo (Alternative title)
Date: 1974 (Copyright)Countries: USA, United Kingdom, CanadaDirector: Joseph Losey
Synopsis: Concerned with Galileo's battle with the hierarchy of the Catholic Church because his ideas threaten mankind's long-held beliefs about the planetary system and his place in it. Adaptation of Bertholt Brecht's play `Galileo'.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subject: Galileo (1564-1642)
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Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 145 mins Length: 13022 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1975Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified
Date: 1974 (Copyright)Countries: USA, United Kingdom, CanadaDirector: Joseph Losey
Synopsis: Concerned with Galileo's battle with the hierarchy of the Catholic Church because his ideas threaten mankind's long-held beliefs about the planetary system and his place in it. Adaptation of Bertholt Brecht's play `Galileo'.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subject: Galileo (1564-1642)
Series title:
Releases
Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 145 mins Length: 13022 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1975Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified
Credits
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©: AFT Distributing Corporation, Made... by/Presents: Ely Landau Organisation, Presents: Cinevision Ltee, Released by: AFT Distributing Corporation, Executive Producer: Otto Plaschkes, Producer: Ely Landau, In Charge of Production: Henry T. Weinstein, Production Associate: Les Landau, Production Manager: Richard Dalton, Production Supervisor: Jim Digangi, Production Accountant: Ron Garrett, Production Consultant: Dyson Lovell, First Assistant Director: Anthony Waye, Second Assistant Director: Gerry Gavigan, [Third Assistant Director]: Peter Waller, Continuity: Pamela Davies, Adapted for the screen by: Barbara Bray, Joseph Losey, Above the Title Credit [for Orig. Play]: Bertolt Brecht, From the English version ['Galileo'] by: Charles Laughton, Director of Photography: Michael Reed, Camera Operator: Gerry Anstiss, Focus: Ron Drinkwater, Gaffer: Steve Birtles, Editor: Reginald Beck, Assistant Editor: Michael Ellis, Production Designer: Richard Macdonald, Assistant Art Director: Richard Rambaut, [Scenic Artist]: Bill Beavis, Props: Rex Hobbs, Costumes: Ruth Myers, Wardrobe Master: Ken Lawton, Wardrobe Mistress: Klara Kerpen, Make-up: Bob Lawrence, Make-up: Philip Leakey, Hairdressing: Anne Mcfadyen, Helen Lennox, Filmed with: Panavision Equipment, In: Eastman Color Film, Original Music: Hanns Eisler, Additional Music and Arrangements by: Richard Hartley, Additional Music Composed & Conducted by: Richard Hartley, Choreographer: Ronald Hynd, Sound Mixer: Ivan Sharrock, Dubbing Mixer: Bill Howe, Dubbing Editor: Peter Horrocks, Made at: EMI-Elstree Studios
Cast
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Topol (Galileo Galilei), Colin Blakely (Priuli), Georgia Brown (ballad singer's wife), Edward Fox (cardinal inquisitor), John Gielgud (old cardinal), Margaret Leighton (elderly court lady), Michel Lonsdale (Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VII), Patrick Magee (Cardinal Bellarmin), John McEnery (Federzoni), Clive Revill (ballad singer), Tom Conti (Andrea Sarti, man), Michael Gough (Sagredo), Mary Larkin (Virginia), Richard O'Callaghan (Fulganzio, little Monk), Judy Parfitt (Mrs Angelica Sarti), Dermot Colman, Andrew Harding, Robert Owens (choirboy), Iain Travers (Andrea Sarti, boy), Tim Woodward (Ludovico Marsili), Norman Scace (first senator), John Savident (second senator), Ian Hoare (Duke Cosimo di Medici), John Moffatt (philosopher), Paul Curran (mathematician), Madeleine Smith (young court lady), Peggy Thorpe-Bates (court lady), Ken Wynne (court official), Robert Bridges (fat prelate), Basil Henson (infuriated monk), James Aubrey, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Martin Milman, Leon Silver, Job Stewart (monk-scholar), Bill Wallis (supporting monk), Henry Woolf (Father Clavius), William Wild (guard), Vernon Dobtcheff (first secretary), Harold Innocent (second secretary - informer), Charles West (Gaffone, rector), Ronald Radd (Vanni), William Gossling (first sacristan), Brian Hawksley (second sacristan), Mischa De La Motte (third sacristan), Maurice Quick (fourth sacristan), Tom Chatto (town crier), John Sharp (monk official), Richard Dennis (peasant), Peter Cellier ([]), Mama Cass ([extra in street scene])