Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The History of the Columbia Logo (9 movies items)

"4th Logo "The Colorized Torch Lady" Starting in 1961, this was used on all colorized films. Notable Films Under This Logo -The Guns of Navarone -Lawrence of Arabia -Jason and the Argonauts -Cat Ballou -A Man for All Seasons -To Sir, with Love -Guess Who's Coming to Dinner -Funny Girl -Oliver! -Easy Rider -Five Easy Pieces -Nicholas and Alexandra -Butterflies Are Free -The Last Detail -Shampoo -Funny Lady "

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" It has been about 48 hours since my very first viewing of Lawrence of Arabia, and my mind is still reeling over its exuberance. It’s amazing in this day and age to come across a modern epic film that achieves its full aesthetic potential, while also attaining a firm grasp of intrigue upon its characters and themes, all flowing in a smooth, easy progression. Nonetheless, Lawrence of Arabia succeeds - and excels - in all these facets. It’s unbelievable that such a film could be a product of t"

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Lawrence of Arabia

“Sometimes a film, and its production, is the stuff of myth, legend and that which dreams are made of. Lawrence of Arabia is a hallucinatory dream, sometimes filled to the brim with wonderment and romanticism, and just as quickly turning in a nightmarish hell from which there is no true escape. It’s the kind of grand movie-making that not only entertains but reaches a level of artistry that is impossible to deny or top.

It’s easy to try and quantify or classify a movie into simple genres and easily digestible identifiers like biographical film or action-adventure story, but Lawrence contains those elements while simultaneously rejecting those simple classifications. Entire sequences go on in real-time in the vast emptiness of the desert. The effect is simple: Lawrence uses th” read more

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"~ I believe I watched this with my classmates in grade school"

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"Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title"