The Professor and the Madman

Name: The Professor and the Madman
Director: Farhad Safinia
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2019-03-07
Rating: 7.12

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Director: Farhad Safinia
Language: English
Released: 2019-03-07
Runtime: 2h 4m

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The story

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.