The movie “Lawrence of Arabia” from Columbia Pictures was directed by David Lean and screen played by Robert Bolt. This is another wonderful movie Lean directed, and another classic that presented the biography of T.E. Lawrence, an eccentric British Officer who united the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks in World War I. The film opens in 1935, with a prologue that shows Lawrence\'s death as a result of a motorcycle accident, followed by his funeral. The time frame then shifts back more than 20 years to Cairo, where Lawrence is about to begin the greatest adventure of his career. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), who has a desk job in Cairo, is eager to go to the desert and put his intellectual skills to work. He teams up with a native guide, and starts learning how to ride a camel on his way to the desert, where he has to find Prince Feisel (Alec Guiness). British’s interest in the desert is to keep Turks away from gaining control over the Suez Canal, and of little interest the......
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