Lawrence of Arabia

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Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Release date: Nov. 13, 2012.
Special features: Secrets of Arabia: a picture-in-graphics track ; Peter O'Toole revisits "Lawrence of Arabia" ; making of ; a conversation with Steven Spielberg ; Maan, Jordan: the camels are cast (1 of 4 original featurettes) ; Vintage featurettes ; original newsreel footage of the New York premiere ; advertising campaigns.
Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quinn, Sir Alec Guinness, Claude Rains, Peter O'toole, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Jack Hawkins.
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
Blu-ray, regions A,B,C, 1080p High Definition, anamorphic widescreen (2.20.1) aspect ratio, 5.1 DTS-HD MA, 5.1 Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

great submitted by nicenora2371 on August 30, 2013, 5:09pm nice movie

The cast submitted by willow on August 31, 2015, 1:07pm English actor Alec Guinness plays Prince Feisal, and apparently looked quite similar to him in his makeup. He modeled his accent after Omar Sharif.

Mexican-born Anthony Quinn plays Auda abu Tayi, and applied his own makeup for the role.

Puerto Rican José Ferrer plays the Turkish Bey.

Omar Sharif (who is of Lebanese Catholic descent, by way of Egypt) plays Sherif Ali.

So Good submitted by SaraP on July 25, 2022, 2:30pm The acting... the writing... the music... the cinematography. A beautiful film.

Worth the reputation submitted by brooksza on August 15, 2022, 11:48am Beautiful wide desert vistas of the first half.

This was a lot of story and I did start losing some steam toward the end. The intermission was appreciated though. It was much funnier and also darker than I was expecting. A few really surprising visual reveals in this.

The two halves are very distinct in this epic. The score sounded familiar, but maybe it's just because it's a classic that I've heard since.

An epic character journey for Lawrence with some loaded imagery and themes of colonialism and religion.