The Greatest Film of All Time

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2003)

My mother took me in to the theater (and then left) as at 13 years old I was too young to get in to an adult rated movie. It cost $2.50 a ticket which in 1963 was a very expensive movie indeed. At the time I had never heard of Lawrence of Arabia so I didn't have a clue what the movie was about. Maybe it was my age, but Lawrence of Arabia had a profound effect on me. I had never seen anything matching the visual images in Lawrence. It has led to a life long hobby of collecting movie stills and posters with a large number of items from Lawrence of Arabia. I have every version put out on VHS, laserdisc, and DVD. The two disc special edition DVD motivated me to purchase a large widescreen television. It is David Lean's masterpiece and it represents the zenith in the careers of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. It is not often that your first role is your greatest but O'Toole and Sharif will always be remembered for their performances in this film. For those of you that may not know, Steven Spielberg credits Lawrence of Arabia for inspiring him to become a movie maker.