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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/I never saw it before, and all I can say is wow! What an incredibly interesting, very well-done, and well-acted movie. Not sure of the historical accuracy, but I'm fairly certain many parts were correct. (lot's of pausing and googling while watching it :)) It's based on Lawrence's book Revolt in the Desert which I have, but haven't read yet.It's almost 4 hours long and kept my attention the whole time. The first half was very good because of all the things that occured that are similar to current events.Been fascinated by T.E. Lawrence lately. Found this website which is loaded with information about him and his writings. http://telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/index.htm
“So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people – greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.” …one of the lines from the movie (TEL), far too true of the world in general and that area in particular, eh?Wally
A classic, with a great soundtrack. My brother bought me the dvd a few years ago and I watched it for the first time. You don't see movies nowadays that have intermissions, do you?It may have been IMDB.com where I read this, but they apparently used only shots with movement going left to right. And aside from the Sir Alec Guiness connection, there's a scene in LOA where they're walking in a building, the same building (same angle as well) that Anakin and Padme are walking in in the third Star Wars prequel.
You don't see movies nowadays that have intermissions, do you?
The last one I saw was Gods and Generals.
"So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are." ...one of the lines from the movie (TEL), far too true of the world in general and that area in particular, eh?Wally
Yes. And Ali (Omar Shariff) sarcastically repeated the line after Lawrence successfully united the tribes against the Turks. Kind of similar to Al Anbar.Yes, Phid, the intermission was "interesting". Good thing the DVD noted the director just wanted the soundtrack with no picture or I would have thought it was broken. 🙂
