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Writers:
Martin Ransohoff (story)
Irene Kamp (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
23 June 1965 (USA) more
Tagline:
She gave men a taste of life that made them hunger for more! more
Plot:
Free-spirited, young, unwed mother seduces a Episcopalian priest. Lots of pretty beach/ocean scenery. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Big Sur Shines in This Story of Illicit Love more (27 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Laura Reynolds | |
| Richard Burton | ... | Dr. Edward Hewitt | |
| Eva Marie Saint | ... | Claire Hewitt | |
| Charles Bronson | ... | Cos Erickson | |
| Robert Webber | ... | Ward Hendricks | |
| James Edwards | ... | Larry Brant | |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Judge Thompson | |
| Tom Drake | ... | Walter Robinson | |
| Douglas Henderson | ... | Paul Sutcliff (as Doug Henderson) | |
| Morgan Mason | ... | Danny Reynolds |
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117 min | Argentina:118 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Argentina:18 | Iceland:L | USA:TV-14 | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
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The working title was "The Flight of the Sandpiper" (back of still 1831 x 17). more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Claire Hewitt, talking to her husband about Danny, says, "He was reciting the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Old English." The language Chaucer wrote in, and that the boy recites in, is Middle English, not Old English. more
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Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs (2004) (TV) more
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The Shadow of Your Smile more
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"The Sandpiper" is not a great movie but it has a certain appeal and is graced by some beautiful seascapes along the rugged Big Sur coastline. The opening sequence, a montage of steep emerald hills and deep blue sea shot from a helicopter, is particularly well done, featuring a deer dashing up one of the oak-covered slopes, building swells breaking on the rocky shore, and one or two fiery red sunsets. Similar scenes continue to bolster the sense of setting throughout the movie. The storyline, although interesting, can't quite live up to the dramatic natural location. The love affair between Richard Burton, a jaded Episcopalian priest and headmaster at a boys school in San Simeon, and Elizabeth Taylor, an alienated artist seeking peace and solitude at an isolated beach house, is reasonably convincing. Yet the priest already has a comely wife in the form of Eva Marie Saint and his motivation for stepping outside their marriage isn't well explained, except that he wants to recapture the idealism of his youth. When a local judge orders that Taylor's troubled son must attend Burton's school, he is almost instantly attracted to her and apparently there is nothing to be done about it.
Set in the mid-sixties, when sexual morays were loosening but we were still in the grip of a churchy moralism, this had to be a controversial film, and I vaguely recall that it was. You can visit the locations used in the movie because some are easily recognizable, such as the store/club/restaurant in Big Sur known as "Nepenthe." And of course, there are the famous stone bridges on Highway One spanning two or three of the rugged chasms. Coursing through the movie, especially during the several seascapes, is the theme "The Shadow of Your Smile." It's a nice movie, if not a great one, and worth seeing more than once.