Ulysses (1967 film) the 1990s. The film was not approved for general release in Ireland until 2000; however, it was screened at the Irish Film Theatre (a private film club) in the 1970s. The large number of characters in the novel is reflected in the large cast of the film. The cast, in order of credit: Ulysses (1967 film) Ulysses is a 1967 British-American drama film loosely based on James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in 1904 Dublin. Starring Milo O'Shea as Leopold Bloom, Barbara Jefford as Molly Bloom, Maurice Roëves as Stephen
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished until 2008. The book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, "Junkie") writes the character "Will Dennison" while Kerouac (as "John Kerouac"), takes on the character of "Mike Ryko". According