Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 period drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of a fictional 18th-century Irish rogue and opportunist who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.
Plot
An omniscient (though possibly unreliable) narrator relates that in 1750s Ireland, Redmond Barry's father is killed in a duel over a sale of some horses. The widow devotes herself to her only son. Barry becomes infatuated with his older cousin, Nora Brady. Nora and her family plan to improve their finances through marriage to a well-off British Army captain, John Quin. Barry shoots Quin in a duel, then flees. He is robbed by highwayman Captain Feeney. Penniless and dejected, Barry joins the British Army. Later, family friend Captain Grogan informs him that his dueling pistol had been loaded with tow, and Quin is not dead: the duel was staged by Nora's family to get rid of Barry.
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
- John Sullivan
- 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