Directed by David LeanStarring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, and I.S. Johar
It's one of the prototypical "epics." It's got a cast full of talented actors, features a historical plot, sweeping locations, and a nearly four hour running time. It's the kind of movie whose reputation precedes it, as I feel there are far more people who know of its status as one of the classics than there are people who have actually seen it. That being said, the movie does deserve most of the accolades it has recieved. It kicked off the long and wonderful career of Peter O'Toole, and showed that epics did not need to depict ancient and Biblical stories. Multiple-Oscar winner Anthony Quinn is particularly fun as a tough Arabian soldier.
Other nominees: The Longest Yard (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, and Darryl F. Zanuck), The Music Man (Morton DaCosta), Mutiny on the Bounty (Lewis Milestone and Carol Reed), and To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
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