To quote Rod Serling, "this is one for the angels."

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 1999)

This movie is long beyond legend and worth every frame. Is T.E. Lawrence, the famous British officer and liberator of Saudi Arabia, serving his Queen and country or is he defecting to the Arabs? Does he know what he's doing? Is he being driven to madness under the political strains he has accumulated, or is the bloodshed getting the better of him? The movie poses innumerable questions about its hero, and then, quite perversely, doesn't see fit to answer them with any degree of explicitness. What it does do is to leave many possibilities open for debate. The film is almost four hours long (it its restored version), it features no females with speaking roles, it has a modicum of action, and the dialog is even sparse. Yet, if ever a piece of film warranted multiple viewings it would have to be Lawrence of Arabia, the pinnacle of David Lean's career. It also could be argued that the late Fred Young's cinematagrophy is the finest to be captured on film. This movie is to cinema what The Sistine Chapel is to interior design. Now, if it could only be shown on the big screen once again...