Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget make this the best superspectacle since...
With Anglo-French relations in such an irritable state, Britain announced that the planned visit to Paris of Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowden, for the movie premiere of Lawrence of Arabia, had been canceled "on the advice of the government...
...moment (though victories are often perishable in Arab politics), the revolt seemed an impressive triumph for Egypt's Nasser, even if he had no direct hand in it. If so, there would be trouble for the hard-pressed kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as for the British-protected sheiks of the Persian Gulf. "Kassem has gone; soon Kings Saud and Hussein will go too," said a complacent Egyptian in Cairo. But first, Nasser's supporters were confident that the Iraqi coup would set off a succession of uprisings in neighboring Syria, which has already...
Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget, make this the best superspectacle since...
There is nothing quite so Arabian in Lawrence of Arabia as an actor named Omar Sharif, a flashing dark fellow with the white Formica smile of a desert chieftain, the scowling fury of a sandstorm, and the overall dash of half a dozen swordsmen trained by Abdul Abulbul Amir. Actors like that usually come from Pasadena, or some similar place, but this one is an exception. He is a citizen of the United Arab Republic, born in Alexandria, raised in Cairo...