Also Known As: Beri Lindon
Company: Peregrine / Hawk Films / Warner Bros.
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Plot: In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love of his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, saving the life of his captain and becoming his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dilapidates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.
Cast and Character: Ryan O'Neal as Barry Lyndon / Marisa Berenson as Lady Honoria Lyndon / Patrick Magee as Chevalier de Balibari / Hardy Krüger as Captain Potzdorf / Steven Berkoff as Lord Ludd / Gay Hamilton as Nora Brady / Marie Kean as Barry's Mother / Diana Körner as Lischen / Murray Melvin as Reverend Samuel Runt / Frank Middlemass as Sir Charles Lyndon / André Morell as Lord Gustavus Adolphus Wendover / Arthur O'Sullivan as Captain Feeny, the Highwayman / Godfrey Quigley as Captain Grogan / Leonard Rossiter as Captain John Quin / Philip Stone as Graham
Creators: n/A
Description: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy.
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Genres: Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
Location: Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
MPAA: PG
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0072684.jpg
Rating: 8.1
Release Date: 18 December 1975 (USA)
Runtime: 184 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman -- and that was his tragedy.
Title: Barry Lyndon
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/
Votes: 66,121
Writers: Stanley Kubrick / William Makepeace Thackeray
Year: 1975
Barry Lyndon got rated 8.1.
About the movie: In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love of his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, saving the life of his captain and becoming his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dilapidates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.
The Bank Dick got rated 7.3.
About the movie: Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is teller. Souse persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Souse keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence.
The Bad and the Beautiful got rated 7.8.
About the movie: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer James Lee Bartlow, a star Georgia Lorrison and a director Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone - including the writer, star and director - on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Anna Christie got rated 6.7.
About the movie: In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna fifteen years ago to the countryside to be raised by relatives in a farm in St. Paul and he has never visited his daughter. Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea. Soon Anna and Matt fall in love with each other and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and also haunted by her past. Matt insists and Anna opens her heart to Matt and to her father disclosing the darks secrets of her past.
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