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Sir David Lean, CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India; for bringing Charles Dickens' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist; and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter. Acclaimed by... MORE Sir David Lean, CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India; for bringing Charles Dickens' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist; and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter. Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, for which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia. Lean has four films in the top eleven of the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films. LESS |
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Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1962, Lawrence of Arabia stands as one of the most timeless and essential motion picture masterpieces. The greatest achievement of its legendary, Oscar-winning director David Lean (1962, Lawrence of Arabia; 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai), the film stars Peter O’Toole – in his career-making performance – as T.E. Lawrence, the audacious World War I British army officer who heroically united rival Arab desert tribes and led them to war against the mighty Turkish Empire. Newly restored and remastered at 4K resolution, the massive scope and epic action of the Director’s Cut of Lawrence of Arabia can now be experienced like never before in this landmark 50th Anniversary Edition.

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