The Magus is a 1968 British mystery film directed by Guy Green and starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina.

Nicholas Urfe is a young Englishman, who has taken a teaching position on the Greek island of Phraxos, following the previous instructor's suicide.

Ultimately, these events begin happening off the estate as well at unexpected times and places, raising questions as to how much power and control Conchis can actually exercise over others' lives.

Perhaps the trouble is simply that it is difficult to become involved in all the spiritual twists and torments when Nicholas Urfe, would-be poet saddled with a symbolically prominent copy of Seven Types of Ambiguity, is presented in this simplified script as just another of those shallow, urbane and faintly cynical Michael Caine heroes.

Whether they are ghosts, actors, psychiatrists or magicians, Conchis and his crew, one feels, are wasting their time on singularly intractable material.

"[7][a] According to Fox records, the film required $7 million in rentals to break even, and by 11 December 1970, it had made $2,450,000, resulting in a loss to the studio.

[8] Fowles was extremely disappointed with the film, although he had written the screenplay himself, and laid most of the blame on director Guy Green.