Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-12-18

Languages:

English, German, French

Countries:

UK, USA, Ireland

Runtime:

184 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (91117 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Cast:

Writer:

Stanley Kubrick (written for the screen by)

William Makepeace Thackeray (novel)

Fullplot:

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protègè and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

Comments:

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By:

Elizabeth Wiggins

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