Ulysses
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Strick
Barbara Jefford
Milo O'shea
Maurice Roeves
T. P. Mckenna
Martin Dempsey
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A warm spring day stimulates the memories of Dublin citizens, among them Stephen Dedalus, a young poet and schoolteacher, and Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising agent. Wracked by guilt, Dedalus recalls his intensely Catholic childhood and his mother's funeral; Bloom mourns his son Rudy. Since the child's death 11 years earlier Bloom has been impotent. His wife, Molly, has responded to this withdrawal by cuckolding him numerous times; her current lover is the virile boxing promoter, Blazes Boylan. Traveling in a funeral cortege, Bloom observes Dedalus strolling on the beach and is strongly attracted to the youth. While lunching in a pub, Bloom is taunted by a one-eyed anti-Semite. In a hospital lounge the Jew encounters the drunken poet, whom he follows to the brothel of Bella Cohen. There both men are beset by terrifying fantasies, Bloom envisioning himself an Oriental potentate, the mayor of Dublin, a culprit tried by a Jew-hating judge, and a woman. In the street Bloom invites Dedalus to his home, where the two spend the night conversing. As day breaks Bloom offers his friend lodging, but the poet refuses. Her husband asleep beside her, Molly considers her youthful courtship by Bloom, her present relationship with Boylan, and the possibility of a future affair with Dedalus.
Director
Joseph Strick
Cast
Barbara Jefford
Milo O'shea
Maurice Roeves
T. P. Mckenna
Martin Dempsey
Sheila O'sullivan
Graham Lines
Peter Mayock
Fionnuala Flanagan
Anna Manahan
Maureen Toal
Maureen Potter
Chris Curran
Maire Hastings
Eddie Golden
Joe Lynch
Ruadhan Neeson
Biddie White-lennon
Meryl Gourley
Ann Rowan
Rosaleen Linehan
Robert Carlisle Jr.
O. Z. Whitehead
Cecil Sheridan
Tony Doyle
James Bartley
Colin Bird
Jack Plant
Dave Kelly
Des Keogh
Leon Collins
Robert Somerset
May Cluskey
Desmond Perry
John Molloy
Clare Mullen
Pamela Mant
Paddy Roche
Brendan Cauldwell
Eugene Lambert
Danny Cummins
Geoffrey Golden
Frank Bailey
Brenda Doyle
Barry Cassin
Don Irwin
Thomas Macanna
Pauline Melville
Maire Ni Ghrainne
Derry Power
Lillian Rapple
Charlie Roberts
Cecil Sheehan
Ritchie Stewart
Crew
Seamus Corcoran
Wilfred Eades
Pat Green
Fred Haines
Fred Haines
Reginald Mills
Stanley Myers
Graham Probst
Walter Reade Jr.
Walter Reade Jr.
Dennis Robertson
Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Christian Wangler
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Writing, Screenplay
Quotes
Trivia
The film attracted controversy on its original release due to an early use the word "fuck."
When first released theatrically the film was deemed so controversial by the New Zealand censors that it could only be screened before gender-segregated audiences in that country.
27 September 2000: finally passed by the film censors in Ireland!
Notes
Filmed on location in Dublin. Opened in London in June 1967; running time: 132 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1967 New York Times Film Critics.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best English Language Films by the 1967 National Board of Review.
Released in United States Spring March 1967
Released in United States Spring March 1967
The United Kingdom
