Lawrence of Arabia A Great Epic Film

                                                                                         

I went to see this film when it first came out.
I was 13 years old at the time and I was awe struck,
to say the least. I knew then and there that even
if I never ended up acting, I could still write
abut it someday!

This was a major award-winning film that received ten
Academy Award nominations and seven Academy Awards,
including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Color
Cinematography (Freddie Young), Best Color Art Direction/Set
Decoration, Best Sound (John Cox), Best Music Score (Maurice
Jarre), and Best Film Editing (Anne V. Coates). Its
nominations for Best Actor (Peter O'Toole, with his first
of seven unsuccessful Oscar nominations) and directed by
David Lean

The opening scene of the film is both a prologue and an
epilogue, depicting Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence's (Peter
O'Toole) death in mid-May of 1935. After the credits,
Lawrence races his motorcycle along an English country road.
His daredevil face is alternately illuminated and darkened -
foretelling his own destiny

At age 29, young Lawrence began his career in the British
headquarters in Cairo during World War I (January 1917),
working at a lowly desk job.Bored out of his mind, he
desperately wants to go where the action is.He ends up in
Arabia.


Once in the desert, he befriends Sherif Ali Ben El Kharish
(Omar Sharif, making one of the most spectacular entrances
in movie history) and draws up plans to aid the Arabs in
their rebellion against the Turks.His first orders is to
investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against
Constantinople and to appraise the strength of the Arab
tribes for the British political bureau. The British
desperately want to keep the Turks from gaining control of
the Suez Canal.

After successfully completing his mission, Lawrence becomes
an unwitting pawn of the Allies, as represented by Gen.
Allenby (Jack Hawkins) and Dryden (Claude Rains), who decide
to keep using Lawrence to secure Arab cooperation against
the Imperial Powers. While on a spying mission to Deraa,
Lawrence is captured and tortured by a sadistic Turkish Bey
(Jose Ferrer). In the heat of the next battle, the blue-eyed
Lawrence screams "No prisoners!" and fights more
ruthlessly than ever.

The movie, filmed mostly in Spain and Jordan, ended up
costing a then staggering 13 million and won seven Academy
Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.The nearly
four-hour long film featured a star-studded cast, with a
virtually unknown, blue-eyed Irish Shakespearean stage actor
Peter O'Toole in his first starring role.

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