It was on first thing this morning. :D

"I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"

"I'm Athos!"

"I'm Porthos!"

"I'm Swann!"
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You know every time I watch Lawrence of Arabia - well, one tends to associate it with O'Toole for obvious reasons - but I'm always struck by how pitch perfect everyone is in this film. So so SO many great performances.

And for some reason I used to always forget that Claude Rains was in this until he actually came onscreen but my goodness, isn't he just delightful? He's always delightful. A few years back I finally noticed how he completely steals every scene of Casablanca that he's in. To be fair he got a lot of the really great lines, but still.

That's because he was the invisible man. :D

Har. :O:

The trick is not minding that it hurts.

Thy mother mated with a scorpion. :D

Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies, not least of which because it was filmed on location. I have the DVD, but also saw it on the big screen in the late 80s when the restored print was released. On the big screen, the desert scenes, especially the one where Lawrence meets sherif Ali at the water well are amazing.

I love jack hawkins in that one. He was perfect as general Allenby who always finds a way to re-motivate Lawrence and send him back out.

Darn! We'll be out most of the day so I'm going to miss a lot of it unfortunately. I got to agree with you Frau Kaleun. Peter O'Toole is one of my favorites. I don't know if you have seen the mini-series "Masada" but thats probably my favorite. Just brilliant performances from him and Peter Strauss.

I caught a bit of Lord Jim, and stayed for the entire Lawrence. Good stuff. And yes, 'Lion in Winter' was part of the Kate Hepburn movie day.

He's so good I have to keep reminding myself that he's Jack Hawkins even though I know that's who it is. If that makes any sense. And it really is a marvelous character.

I remember seeing this Letterman show in 1995(?) when he was doing his show in London for a week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K561m...eature=related

Peter O'Toole was on one night. His story about the camel charge near the end of Lawrence of Arabia is hilarious. It starts at about 3:30 in the video but the whole clip is pretty funny, starting out with O'Toole riding in on a camel. :haha:

:)

Ah, the epic of all time. I have watched my "Lawrence of Arabia" DVD at least annually -- and attended theatrical screenings whenever they occur here. The best way to see it is in a grand old cinema with one gigantic screen.

The film has inspired generations of scholars to learn more about the real T.E. Lawrence, a fascinating & "complicated" man. I've written a screenplay about his later life in the RAF -- that's what I'm trying to sell in the UK now (instead of writing U-boat stories).

The tricky part: who nowadays could play Lawrence (at age 40) even half as well as O'Toole did in 1960? Hugh Laurie, perhaps?

Ralph Fiennes played him in 1992 for a TV-film called "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia" -- with TEL & Feisal in Paris for the Versailles Conference. Well worth seeing on DVD.

Just when you think you can't love him more.... :rotfl2:

he turns gay. :har: Which he is.