TY - ADVS AU - Kubrick,Stanley AU - O'Neal,Ryan AU - Berenson,Marisa AU - Magee,Patrick AU - Thackeray,William Makepeace TI - Barry Lyndon T2 - Stanley Kubrick collection U1 - 791.437 22 PY - 2009/// CY - [U.K.] PB - Warner Home Video N1 - Film made in 1975; Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray; Cast includes: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee; BBFC code: PG N2 - Stanley Kubrick's lavish period drama based on the Thackeray novel. Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl (Gay Hamilton) and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster then embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). However, despite the luck which has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about Barry's downfall ER -