Barry Lyndon

Based On the book by William Makepeace Thackeray

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and 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 Irish rogue and gold digger who marries a rich widow in order to attempt to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position. Kubrick began production on Barry Lyndon after his 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. He had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost his financing because of the commercial failure of the similar 1970 Dino De Laurentiis–produced Waterloo.

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Release date:

December 11, 1975

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Cast:

Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Steven Berkoff, Patrick Magee

Genre:

Historical, Drama, War, Period drama, War drama

Country:

United States, United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

1975 in adaptations