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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3333297500555
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Columbia Pictures
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Region Code: 2
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1963
Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 5 stars for movie, 4 1/2 stars for DVD
The Columbia Classics Collector's Edition of "Lawrence of Arabia" is the best version on DVD.
I just discovered this film a few years ago, when the Superbit version was out of print and the Limited Edition was not only expensive, but was infamous for its inaccurate colors. I bought the single disc DVD, and was very pleased with it. However, it had no extra features.
Using various website reviews and side-by-side image comparisons, I have come to the conclusion that the ... Read More
Rating: - Lawrence of Arabia
This winner of 7 Academy Award including 1962 Best Picture is magnificent. The scenery breath taking,Peter O'Tool along with Omar Sharif Jack Hawkins,Jose Ferrer and Claude Rains together with all of the wonderful actors makes "Laqwrence of Arabia"one DVD worthy of a place of honor in our DVD collection
Rating: - An Unlikely Masterpiece
I find it amazing this movie was ever made. A three-and-a-half hour epic about a strange, masochistic, messianic, probably gay, possibly mentally disturbed British military officer having an identity crisis while going native & riding a camel back and forth in the desert in the wrong theater of a major war. I wonder how David Lean pitched this thing to Columbia Studios in the first place.
There is not one word of dialogue spoken by any female in the entire movie. The movie was made ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie, choose your version carefully
There are actually 4 versions of this movie on DVD:
1. Bare bones single disc version (don't bother; I agree with reviewer)
2. 2-disc limited edition (which has lots of extras but the film quality is not the best of the versions out there) - 2001 release
3. 2-disc superbit edition (which doesn't have the extras but the film quality is superior to the limited edition) - 2003 release (out of print but can get on amazon marketplace or ebay)
4. 2-disc collector's edition (which ... Read More
Rating:  - Going nowhere slow!
This is one of the worst movies I ever sat through... and one of the longest. If Spartacus suffered a severe head injury he might be Lawrence of Arabia. Why this movie gets any credit is well beyond me. If you've ever scene a cat defecate in a sandbox, then you've already seen this movie.
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