A Magnificent Motion Picture

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2004)

This excellent epic is the biography of T.E. Lawrence. A newcomer named Peter O'Toole plays the title role. O'Toole gets a job as an observer with Alec Guinness. Guinness plays the leader of an Arab tribal army.
O'Toole helps Guinness and his actions are recorded by a journalist played by Arthur Kennedy. The rest of his life is a legendary one. And you'll have to see it to get the greatness that the film is.
It really is a grand spectacle that you have to see to believe. Every scene is like a painting by the best of artists. The film again shows what David Lean can do as a filmmaker.
The film won seven Oscars including Picture, Director, Art-Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Score, and Sound. It lost the awards for Actor, Supporting Actor (Omar Sharif), and Adapted Screenplay.