Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 BritishAmerican period drama film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. It stars Ryan ONeal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, and Hardy Krger. The film recounts the exploits of a fictional 18thcentury Irish adventurer. Exteriors were shot on location in Ireland, England and Germany. At the 1975 Academy Awards, the film won four Oscars in production categories.

An omniscient though possibly unreliable narrator states that in 1750s Ireland, the father of Redmond Barry is killed in a duel over a disputed horse sale. The widow, disdaining offers of marriage, devotes herself to her only son.As a teenager, Barry becomes strongly attached to his older cousin, Nora Brady. Though she charms him during a card game, she later shows interest in a welloff English Captain John Quin, much to Barrys dismay. Nora and her family plan to relieve their poverty with an advantageous marriage, but Barry refuses to accept the situation and shoots Quin in a duel. Barry flees to Dublin, but en route is robbed of purse and equipment by Captain Feeney, an infamous highwayman. Broke, Barry joins the British army, whereupon he reunites with Captain Grogan, a family friend, who informs him that, in fact, he did not kill QuinBarrys dueling pistol was loaded with tow. The duel was staged by Noras family to get rid of Barry so that their family finances would be secured through the marriage of Nora and Quin. ........

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