Barry Lyndon [videorecording] / written for the screen, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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FilmPublisher number: D021148 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Subtitle language: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, German Series: Stanley Kubrick collectionPublication details: [U.K.] : Warner Home Video, 2009Description: 1 videodisc (178 min.) : sd, colDDC classification: 791.437 Cast includes: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee.Summary: 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.
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Film made in 1975.
Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Cast includes: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee.
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.
BBFC code: PG.
DVD.
In English and French with subtitles in English for the hearing impaired, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish and German.
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