| Lawrence
of Arabia or Smith in the Desert?
David Lean's film viewed as history
A review discussion by Jeremy Wilson Welcome to an on-going project. Before these
pages are posted here, their content is posted on the T.E.Lawrence
Studies List for comment, and that is a slow process. So it may be many
months before the notes reach the closing scene.
Pages already online:
Introduction |
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The
Oxford Workshop - some useful reading - personal background |
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A
note about copyright - The question - Private agendas |
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The
disclaimer - major characters who were real people - major
fictional characters |
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Dramatic themes, interpretation, and other historical problems |
Scene-by-scene comments |
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Title sequence - the accident - memorial - on the steps of St.
Paul's |
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Page 6 |
Military
Intelligence Office, Cairo - Lawrence passes through the Officers' Mess -
General Murray, Dryden and Lawrence - Dryden and Lawrence |
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Lawrence's ride inland from Rabegh to Feisal's camp in Wadi
Safra |
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Lawrence, Brighton and Feisal in Feisal's camp |
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9 |
The
expedition to Akaba crosses the desert |
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