Product Description

Newly restored - pristine audio & picture quality! Exclusive making of documentary, a conversation with Steven Spielberg, four original featurettes, New York Premiere, advertising campaigns.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5531 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-04-15
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.55:1
• Formats: AC-3, Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Arabic, English, Turkish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, Thai
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 226 minutes

Amazon.com
There's no getting around a simple, basic truth: watching Lawrence of Arabia in any home-video format represents a compromise. There's no better way to appreciate this epic biographical adventure than to see it projected in 70 millimeter onto a huge theater screen. That caveat aside, David Lean's masterful "desert classic" is still enjoyable on the small screen, especially if viewed in widescreen format. (If your only option is to view a "pan & scan" version, it's best not to bother; this is a film for which the widescreen format is utterly mandatory.) Peter O'Toole gives a star-making performance as T.E. Lawrence, the eccentric British officer who united the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I. Lean orchestrates sweeping battle sequences and breathtaking action, but the film is really about the adventures and trials that transform Lawrence into a legendary man of the desert. Lean traces this transformation on a vast canvas of awesome physicality; no other movie has captured the expanse of the desert with such scope and grandeur. Equally important is the psychology of Lawrence, who remains an enigma even as we grasp his identification with the desert. Perhaps the greatest triumph of this landmark film is that Lean has conveyed the romance, danger, and allure of the desert with such physical and emotional power. It's a film about a man who leads one life but is irresistibly drawn to another, where his greatness and mystery are allowed to flourish in equal measure. --Jeff Shannon

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Customer Reviews

A FABULOUS Classic!
Classic - action story - can very much be related to current issues in the Middle East today - tribes fighting tribes and their inability to get along at many times except to come together to fight a common enemy.
Great spectacular larger than life scenes.
The original Lawrence was an odd, short and not very handsome man, Peter O'Toole is so beautiful, it is hard to take your eyes off him. He is a big breathtaking in his white robes.
I've heart the book that he wrote "The Seven Pillars" is better than the movie, and I've gotten that and plan to read as well. This is a movie that everyone should have in their permanent movie collection, it can be watched over and over. I believe it is one of the all time best movies. I even heard that before Stephen Speelberg makes a movie, he always watches this first - to remind himself just how "the perfect movie" looks.....

Warning, but it's still a great movie.
A great movie. One of the all time best. We all know that! Even all the Ebert wannabees that clog these pgs know that.

This 'Collector's Ed' has the intermission 20 mins into the second disc! I realize there are tech reasons for this. I think so anyway. It's still a pain. If only the intermission was at the end of the first disc. Perhaps in the near future they can put the whole movie onto one disc. Transfer is pretty good to my non-techie eyes.

It SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
In the product description is said it has subtitles in spanish, due to the fact that my dad only speaks spanish I thought it would be a great gift for him and make him remember his days of youth, but its just a BIG LIE!!! the movie only has 2 languages: English and French.
Now why didn't we returned it? We are too far away to start a process like that and my dad was too excited to take a look at the description that he just peeled off the wrap.