Lawrence of Arabia (Original title)Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Working title)Lawrence of Arabia [Director's Cut] (Alternative title)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 13 December 1962 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: David Lean
Synopsis: War drama about the exploits of Colonel T.E. Lawrence, the British First World War soldier and scholar. Lawrence is killed in a motorcycle accident in England, and his memorial service is held at St Paul's Cathedral. Lawrence's war service is then charted in flashback. The Arab Bureau sends Lawrence from Cairo on a mission to assess the Arab revolt. Lawrence treks across the desert, meets Prince Feisal and sheikh Auda Abu Tayi, and leads a small army across a stretch of supposedly impassable desert known as 'the sun's anvil', to take the Turkish port town Aqaba. General Allenby sends a reluctant Lawrence back into the desert to wage guerrilla war against the Turks and Germans. American newspaper reporter Jackson Bentley makes Lawrence a glamorous, world-famous figure. Lawrence is captured and tortured by the Turks, and, becoming an altogether darker figure than his legend would suggest, he leads a massacre on some retreating enemy soldiers. In Damascus, the newly established Arab Council proves a chaotic shambles, unable to control the political situation, and Lawrence heads home to England no longer feeling he fully belongs there or in Arabia.
Genres: Biopic, War
Subjects: Lawrence, T.E. (1888-1935), Middle Eastern front (WW1), World War I, Deserts, Tribes, Fame
Releases
Date: 10 December 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 222 mins Length: 24975 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 11 September 1970Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Date: 26 May 1989Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 228 mins Length: 19633 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 27 July 2001Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia TriStar Films (UK)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 13 December 1962 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: David Lean
Synopsis: War drama about the exploits of Colonel T.E. Lawrence, the British First World War soldier and scholar. Lawrence is killed in a motorcycle accident in England, and his memorial service is held at St Paul's Cathedral. Lawrence's war service is then charted in flashback. The Arab Bureau sends Lawrence from Cairo on a mission to assess the Arab revolt. Lawrence treks across the desert, meets Prince Feisal and sheikh Auda Abu Tayi, and leads a small army across a stretch of supposedly impassable desert known as 'the sun's anvil', to take the Turkish port town Aqaba. General Allenby sends a reluctant Lawrence back into the desert to wage guerrilla war against the Turks and Germans. American newspaper reporter Jackson Bentley makes Lawrence a glamorous, world-famous figure. Lawrence is captured and tortured by the Turks, and, becoming an altogether darker figure than his legend would suggest, he leads a massacre on some retreating enemy soldiers. In Damascus, the newly established Arab Council proves a chaotic shambles, unable to control the political situation, and Lawrence heads home to England no longer feeling he fully belongs there or in Arabia.
Genres: Biopic, War
Subjects: Lawrence, T.E. (1888-1935), Middle Eastern front (WW1), World War I, Deserts, Tribes, Fame
Releases
Date: 10 December 1962Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 222 mins Length: 24975 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 11 September 1970Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Date: 26 May 1989Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 228 mins Length: 19633 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 27 July 2001Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia TriStar Films (UK)
Credits
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©/Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Produced by: Sam Spiegel, [Production Executive (13.9-17.11.61)]: Hugh Perceval, Production Manager: John Palmer, [Production Manager (3.9.-6.10.62)]: R.L.M. Davidson, [London Unit Representative]: Lew Thornburn, Location Manager: Douglas Twiddy, [Location Manager]: Eva Monley, [Production Consultant]: André de Toth, [Production Assistant (25.4.-28.7.1962)]: Otto Plaschkes, [Production Secretary]: McCorry. Grace, Noreen Hipwell, [Production Secretary (8.5.-2.10.61]: Pat Moon, [Production Secretary (2.1.-15.12.61)]: Maureen Whitty, Pamela Moore, [Prodn Secretary (Morocco 18.5.-7.9.62)]: Barbara Back, [Prodn Secretary (Morocco 9.7.-14.9.62)]: Nicole Apoteker, [Production Representative]: Mildred McCargar, [Secretary to Mr Spiegel]: Jean Menz, [Unit Office Runner (24.4.61-21.9.62)]: Peter Beale, [Unit Office Runner (22.8.62-)]: John Dunkley, [Research]: Marie Budberg, 2nd Unit Director: Andre Smagghe, 2nd Unit Director: Noel Howard, Assistant Director: Roy Stevens, [Assistant Director (1st)]: Ted Sturgis, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: David Tringham, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Bryan Coates, Michael Stevenson, [Spanish Shoot Assistant Director]: Otto Plaschkes, [1st Assistant Director, UK Locations]: David Tringham, Continuity: Barbara Cole, [2nd Unit Continuity (11.8.-24.8.62)]: Lee Turner, [Assistant Continuity (22.7.-6.10.61)]: Josie Fulford, Casting Director: Maude Spector, Screenplay by: Robert Bolt, Screenplay by [Credit added to prints since 1995]: Michael Wilson, Director of Photography: F.A. Young, 2nd Unit Photography: Skeets Kelly, 2nd Unit Photography: Nicolas Roeg, Peter Newbrook, Camera Operator: Ernest Day, [Camera Operator (12.5.-28.7.62)]: Ginger Gemmell, [Camera Operator (2.7.-31.8.62)]: Ceri Davies, [Camera Operator (24.5.-31.8.62)]: Alex Thomson, [Focus Puller]: Ken Withers, [Focus Puller (24.5.-31.8.62)]: Mike Fox, [Focus Puller (2.7.-31.8.62)]: Mervyn Wilson, [Focus Puller (26.4.-23.6.61)]: Hubert Davey, [Focus Puller (28.6.-6.10.61)]: Kevin Kavanagh, [Clapper Loader]: Ron Anscombe, Bobby Stilwell, [Clapper Loader (19.6.-31.8.62)]: Michael Tomlin, Chief Electrician: Archie Dansie, Special Effects: Cliff Richardson, Editor: Anne V. Coates, [Assistant Editor]: Howard Kent, Production Designed by: John Box, Art Director: John Stoll, [Art Director]: Ben Rogers, [Art Director (18.3.-20.7.62)]: Stephen Grimes, [Art Director (12.1.-27.4.62)]: Tony Masters, Assistant Art Director: R. Rossotti, Assistant Art Director: G. Richardson, Assistant Art Director: T. Marsh, Assistant Art Director: A. Rimmington, [Assistant Art Director]: Wallis Smith, Charles Bishop, Set Dresser: Dario Simoni, [Art Dept Secretary (20.2.-7.4.61)]: Penny Worth, Valerie Freeman, [Draughtsman]: Roy Stannard, Michael Lamont, [Draughtsman (3.2.-18.2.61)]: Alan Tomkins, Roy Walker, [Sketch Artist]: Arthur Thompson, Property Master: Eddie Fowlie, [Production Buyer]: John Higgs, Edward Rodrigo, Construction Manager: Peter Dukelow, Construction Assistant: Fred Bennett, Costume Designer: Phyllis Dalton, Wardrobe: John Wilson-Apperson, Make-up: Charles Parker, Hairdresser: A.G. Scott, Music Composed by: Maurice Jarre, [Music] Played by: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, [Music] Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult, Orchestrations: Gérard Schurmann, [Music Co-ordinator]: Morris W. Stoloff, Sound Recording: Paddy Cunningham, Sound Dubbing: John Cox, Sound Editor: Winston Ryder, [Foley Artist]: Beryl Mortimer, [Stunt Double - Peter O'Toole]: John Sullivan, [Principal Military Adviser]: L.E.M. Perowne, [Military Adviser]: Colonel R.C. Hutt, [Liaison Officer]: Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, [Aviation Stunts]: John Crewdson, [Transport Manager (8.5.-13.10.61)]: Peter Middlemiss, [Austin Mechanic]: Bert Holliday, [Radio Technician (15.7.-29.9.61)]: Christopher Miles, [Quantity Surveyor (10.4-31.5.62)]: Anthony Lewis, [Rolls Royce Mechanic]: Richard Ford, Reconstructed and Restored by: Robert A. Harris, Restoration Produced by: Robert A. Harris, Jim Painten, [Restoration] Assistant: Jude Schneider, [Restoration] Assistant: Maggie Field, Joanne Lawson, [Restoration] Editorial Consultant: Anne V. Coates, [Restoration] Sound Consultant: Richard L. Anderson, [Restoration] Re-recording Mixer: Gregg Landaker, [Restoration] Special Thanks to: Martin Scorsese, [Restoration] Special Thanks to: Steven Spielberg, [Restoration] Special Thanks to: Jon Davison, Sir David Lean, [Dialogue Coach]: Hugh Miller, [Dove Pilot (6.1.60-12.2.61)]: Dan Wilmott, D.J. Wilmott, [Dove Pilot (17.3.-23.6.61)]: Geoffrey Last, [Unit Publicist]: John Woolfenden, Studio: Shepperton Studios, [Tests circa 1960 filmed at]: MGM British Studios, [Moroccan Studios]: Morocco) Andromeda Studios (Ouarzazate
Cast
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Alec Guinness (Prince Feisal), Anthony Quinn (Auda Abu Tayi), Jack Hawkins (General Allenby), José Ferrer (Turkish Bey), Anthony Quayle (Colonel Harry Brighton), Claude Rains (Mr Dryden), Arthur Kennedy (Jackson E. Bentley), I.S. Johar (Gasim), Gamil Ratib (Majid), Zia Mohyeddin (Tafas), Donald Wolfit (General Murray), Omar Sharif (Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish), Peter O'Toole (T.E. Lawrence), Michel Ray (Farraj), John Dimech (Daud), Howard Marion Crawford (medical officer), Jack Gwillim (club secretary), Hugh Miller (R.A.M.C. colonel), Noel Howlett ([vicar at St Paul's]), Jack Hedley ([reporter at St Paul's]), Ian MacNaughton ([Corporal Hartley, map room]), Harry Fowler ([Corporal William Potter, map room]), John Barry ([MP, map room]), Bruce Beeby ([captain, officers' club]), Patrick Kavanagh ([staff-major, Murray's aide]), Norman Rossington ([Corporal Jenkins]), Henry Oscar ([Selim, Koran reciter]), John Ruddock ([elder Harith]), Kamal Rashid ([Auda's son]), David Lean ([voice of motorcyclist, Suez Canal]), Roy Stevens ([driver, Cairo]), Fred Bennett ([sergeant, Cairo]), Peter Dukelow ([driver, Cairo]), Cyril Shaps ([bartender, officer's club]), Daniel Moynihan ([officer, officers' club]), Fernando Sancho ([Turkish sergeant]), Clive Morton ([artillery general, field briefing]), John Robinson ([infantry general, field briefing]), Basil Dignam ([cavalry general, field briefing]), Mohammed Habachi ([Talal]), Cher Kaoiu ([Khitan of Aleppo]), Kenneth Fortescue ([Tracey, Allenby's ADC]), Peter Burton ([sheik, Arab Council]), Bryan Pringle ([driver, end sequence]), Stuart Saunders ([regimental sergeant major]), Barry Warren ([2 British officers/Arab sheik]), Robert Bolt (soldier with pipe, officers' club), John Bennett