Word: choephoroi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Given all the attendant premises, the film is a really remarkable achievement. The three plays--Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and Eumenides--have a total running time of about eight hours, cut to five and a half for the live production. This was obviously too long for a movie, and the time had to be further shortened by wholesale cutting to an hour and three quarters. Still, the film manages to capture the grand sweep of the classic tale of revenge, murder and retribution, though many qualities of the original are necessarily lost...
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