Watch Catch My Soul (1974) Free Online

Release Date: 1974

Cast: Lance LeGault, Tony Joe White, Susan Tyrrell, Raleigh Gardenhire, Bonnie Bramlett, Wayne Waterhouse, Richie Havens, Billy Joe Royal, Season Hubley, Delaney Bramlett

Categories: Movies, Musical

For UK Stage version see Catch My Soul (UK stage version) Catch My Soul is a 1974 film produced by Jack Good and Richard M. Rosenbloom, and directed by Patrick McGoohan. It was an adaptation of Good's stage musical of the same title, which itself was loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's Othello. It was not a critical success. Shakespeare's tragedy of revenge and racism had been retitled for the London stage and relocated from Venice to Piccadilly; for the film, the location of the drama was moved to the New Mexico desert; filming took place in Espanola and Santa Fe. The title comes... MORE

For UK Stage version see Catch My Soul (UK stage version) Catch My Soul is a 1974 film produced by Jack Good and Richard M. Rosenbloom, and directed by Patrick McGoohan. It was an adaptation of Good's stage musical of the same title, which itself was loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's Othello. It was not a critical success. Shakespeare's tragedy of revenge and racism had been retitled for the London stage and relocated from Venice to Piccadilly; for the film, the location of the drama was moved to the New Mexico desert; filming took place in Espanola and Santa Fe. The title comes from Act III, Scene III of Shakespeare's play, in which Othello declares his love for Desdemona, "Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee; and when I love thee not, chaos is come again." Although much of the plot remains intact, Othello, the "noble Moor" becomes the pacifist leader of a hippie commune, Iago appears to be the Devil incarnate who "fits all the negative stereotypes of dropouts with his scruffy beard and unwashed look" and Desdemona becomes a "white round-faced girl with granny glasses". Patrick McGoohan had earlier starred in the successful 1962 modernisation of the Othello story, LESS