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| Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD | 
 enlarge | Director: David Lean
Actors: Peter O'toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Studio: Columbia Tri/Star
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  388 reviews
Sales Rank: 3584
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Arabic (Original Language), English (Original Language), Turkish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 226
Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD25622D
UPC: 043396256224
EAN: 0043396256224
ASIN: B0016K40KY
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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 where's the blu ray edition? November 2, 2008
If any movie ever deserved to be on blu ray this is the one. It is a cinematic masterpiece. This two disc version has the best print around but it still needs a blu ray release. This great picture has it all and you have 382 other reviews to tell you that. The man the story is about proves that history is more fascinating than fiction and Lawrence was a great man indeed. He had his troubles just like the great actor who protrays him in this movie Peter O Toole , whose alcoholism robbed him of alot of his life by making it a giant haze. Thankfully he's still around to provide us with great performances like he did in "venus".
Every scene in this movie is fantastic although they gloss over Lawrence of arabia's rape by the turkish troops. In middle eastern lands it is quite common for many men guards or others to rape male prisoners and that incident drove Lawrence over the edge leading to him to slaughter the turks in large numbers. Which marred the man's greatness to a degree, but in those days who could he talk to about it? In spite of that watching this movie is like watching perfection in cinematography and pacing. It just does everything right and the story is a important one
Timeless Classic October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie is a masterpiece. I heard about it previously and decided to purchase it due to comments and reviews. It portrays the stuggle of the Arab tribes in Arabia with Lawrence uniting them to victory over the Ottoman Empire during WWI. It is a classic.
You are one of those English who love the desert.... October 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cinematography makes this film great. I loved one of the first scenes in which Lawrence and his guide are dipping water from a well and see a shifting, ephemeral shape in the distance. The shape gets larger and seems to be someone walking on water...or...at leasts someone walking on the surface of a shimmering mirage. A rifle cracks and the guide drops dead. The 'shape' is Omar Sharif on his camel and has killed the guide for the unforgiveable sin of stealing water.
The movie is filled with similar images of the desert...beautiful, deadly and brutal. Lawrence, in the form of the overly-tall Peter O'Toole [the real T.E. Lawrence was only about 5' 4"]. Still, O'Toole captures some of the strangeness and irony of a very strange Englishman. Lawrence girds up the Bedoins to fight the Ottoman Turks. They blow up trains and murder people. They traverse an uncrossable desert to attack Al Aqaba on the Gulf with guns trained only on the sea. After incredible hardship they succeed and slaughter the garrison. Lawrence finds an interesting truth about himself...he enjoys killing people.
Confusion about his very nature moves Lawrence in his leadership of the Arab cause. Lawrence's leadership has, in its own way, become much our own problem in dealing with the Arabic and Islamic powers.
Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
LAWRENCE October 1, 2008
This is the greatest film ever made.Yes, better than "Gone With The Wind", better than "Citizen Kane," better than... you name it. It has the scope and vision of an epic, which for me is still Hollywood's grandest contribution to the art form. Small pictures can have a more personal impact, but the epic cannot really be made in a studio built off of one's garage. Spielberg and company have probably destroyed the genre with their digital monkey business; the true epic requires large casts and locations that can fill the camera. Lean found his canvas in the desert. It is certainly the greatest desert film ever made. Curiously, the film doesn't date. This says a lot about its superb script and a cast that has never been matched for talent. Even small roles are played by leading actors of the stage and screen, many now forgotten but they were legends in their time. Claude Rains comes to mind, of course, but virtually every role is filled by the best British stars of the war generation. The cinematography is breathtaking, even today when we have all been everywhere through television. Bolt's script works, balancing the sweep of the epic structure with numerous moving, personal scenes between two or three characters. Then there is the music. What can one say. Surely it is one of the greatest and most memorable of all soundtracks, a haunting, powerful evocation of the Arab peoples. In terms of politics, the film is provocative, anticipating political correctness by some thirty years in its depiction of the clash of cultures. Lawrence himself was devoted to the cultures he visited, so the theme is built into this sensitive portrayal of a most extraordinary of men.
Lawrence of Arabia August 26, 2008
Owned this as video. Wanted the clearer Def of DVD.This a pic that is a classic, I watch and re-watch from time to time. No devotee of really great films should be without...
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