Catch My Soul

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 Goods stage musical of the same title, which itself was loosely adapted from William Shakespeares Othello. It was not a critical success.

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 roundfaced girl with granny glasses.Patrick McGoohan had earlier starred in the successful 1962 modernisation of the Othello story, All Night Long, which had been moved to 1960s London and fuelled by jazz music. AllMovies reviewer points out that perhaps he thought lightning would strike twice in moving it to a gospel show in the Southwest. He was terribly wrong. Catch My Soul would be the only film to be directed by McGoohan, although he later directed some episodes of Columbo. In an interview with Premiere magazine in 1995, McGoohan gave some insight into why the film had failed ........

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