The Sandpiper (1965) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Sandpiper
Year
1965
Running time
116 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Melodrama
Synopsis
Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the boy away to live and study in a parochial orphanage/school. The unwed mother is distraught. At first, the school administrator, Episcopalian Priest Dr. Hewitt (Richard Burton), finds the free-spirited Laura to be morally bereft and without redeeming value. Eventually, Laura and Dr. Hewitt fall in love and begin an illicit affair.
Awards
1965: Oscar: Best Original Song
1965: 2 Nominations Golden Globes: Best Original Score and Original Song
Critics' reviews
- "The story as a whole never gets far afield of "the thing" between the Burtons."
- "Yes, it's a laughably fictitious version of California bohemia in the mid-'60s. But it still channels Taylor's feisty spirit and the heartfelt bond she felt for the outcasts of the world."
- "Vincente Minnelli has directed this minor epic in pedestrian style, the acting is mostly indifferent, though Burton does manage to rise above his material, and the general atmosphere is one of extreme blandness."
- "It must rank as one of the most expensive and pretentious loads of garbage ever foisted upon an adoring public."
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