Barry Lyndon 1975

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 184 min

genre: drama

theme: spy

director: Stanley Kubrick

Score: 8 / 10

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 an 18th-century Anglo-Irish rogue and golddigger who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.

Plot

In 1750s 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 can get rid of Barry and improve their finances through her marriage to Quin.

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author	Stanley Kubrick
award	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Academy Award for Best Production Design National Board of Review Award for Best Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Berlin continental Europe Dublin England Kingdom of Ireland
director	Stanley Kubrick
editor	Tony Lawson
events	colonialism Emotional competence historiography individual and society liberty masculinity opportunism sexuality social control social hierarchy storytelling violence
genre	drama social
keywords	apoplexy army captain bremen british army delope duel end expel family estate family friend financial ruin fires into the ground frederick the great french royal army gamble guinea hatred high society highwayman impress impressment ireland kill masquerade professional gambler prussia prussian army riding accident satisfaction seven years war sword duel wound young adult
musicBy	Leonard Rosenman
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Stanley Kubrick
productionCompany	Hawk Films Peregrine Productions
publisher	Columbia-Warner Distributors Warner Bros.
recordedAt	Blenheim Palace Castle Howard Corsham Court Dublin Castle Dunrobin Castle Huntington Castle Kells Priory Longleat Ludwigsburg Palace Neues Palais in Potsdam Oxfordshire Petworth House Powerscourt Estate Stourhead House Waterford Castle Wilton House
theme	spy war