Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia
    1962

    Synopsis

    The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

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    Cast

    • Peter O'TooleT.E. Lawrence
    • Alec GuinnessPrince Feisal
    • Anthony QuinnAuda abu Tayi
    • Jack HawkinsGeneral Allenby
    • Omar SharifSherif Ali
    • José FerrerTurkish Bey
    • Anthony QuayleColonel Harry Brighton
    • Claude RainsMr. Dryden
    • Arthur KennedyJackson Bentley
    • Donald WolfitGeneral Murray

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      In short, they don't make 'em like this one anymore. Viewing it is like taking a time machine to a movie age that was more naive than our own in some ways, more sophisticated and ambitious in others.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      What a bold, mad act of genius it was, to make Lawrence of Arabia, or even think that it could be made.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      It's perhaps only because it can't be seen in its full glory on television that "Lawrence" isn't ranked more highly on some recent all-time "best film" lists. But it belongs near the very top. It's an astonishing, unrepeatable epic.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      Riveting from beginning to end, featuring stellar performances, amazing cinematography, and a story without a trace of fat, the film does everything an epic is supposed to do - and more.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T.E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in battle against the Ottoman Turks during WWI.
    • 100

      New Times (L.A.)

      Released in 1962, it was pretty clearly the most intelligent spectacular within living memory. On its 40th anniversary, it's even better.
    • 100

      Boston Globe

      Lawrence is back on the big screen, and it simply demands to be seen. Yes, again.
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      LarsenOnFilm

      The movie manages both senses of scale—the intimate and the expansive—with equal majesty, merging them into something moving, mesmerizing, and poetic, in a way only Lean movies could really manage.

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