Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Anglo-Irish rogue and gold digger who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.
Plot
In the 1750s Kingdom of Ireland, Redmond Barry's father is killed in a duel. Barry becomes infatuated with his cousin Nora Brady, and shoots her suitor, British Army captain John Quin, in a duel. He flees but is robbed by highwaymen on his way to Dublin. Penniless, Barry enlists in the British Army. Family friend Captain Grogan informs him that Quin is not dead: the duel was staged so that Nora's family could get rid of Barry and improve their finances through her marriage to Quin.
Awards
Cast
- André Morell
- Anthony Sharp
- Arthur O'Sullivan
- Barry Jackson
- Billy Boyle
- David Morley
- Diana Körner
- Dominic Savage
- Ferdy Mayne
- Frank Middlemass
- Frederick Schiller
- Gay Hamilton
- Geoffrey Chater
- George Sewell
- Godfrey Quigley
- Hans Meyer
- Hardy Krüger
- Harry Towb
- John Alcott
- John Bindon
- John Sharp
- Jonathan Cecil
- Leon Vitali
- Leonard Rossiter
- Liam Redmond
- Marie Kean
- Marisa Berenson
- Michael Hordern
- Murray Melvin
- Pat Roach
- Patrick Magee
- Peter Cellier
- Philip Stone
- Roger Booth
- Ryan O'Neal
- Steven Berkoff
- Vivian Kubrick
- Wolf Kahler