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The Sandpiper

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Original title

The Sandpiper

Year

1965

Running time

116 min.

Country

United States

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Screenwriter

Dalton Trumbo, Michael Wilson

Cast

Music

Johnny Mandel

Cinematography

Milton R. Krasner

Producer

MGM

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.

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Awards: 1965: Oscar: Best Original Song

1965: 2 Nominations Golden Globes: Best Original Score and Original Song

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Critics' reviews

"To put it briefly, this is just a soap opera, loaded with sex, embellished with scenery and incredibly silly. It also offers some dreadful dialog."

Mae Tinee: Chicago Tribune
"The story as a whole never gets far afield of "the thing" between the Burtons."

Miami Herald
"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."

San Francisco Chronicle
"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."

Arizona Republic
"Trite and often ponderous in its philosophizing by the two principals."

Variety Staff: Variety
"It must rank as one of the most expensive and pretentious loads of garbage ever foisted upon an adoring public."

TV Guide
"A truly dire romantic melodrama."

Geoff Andrew: Time Out
"A viewer who is not careful may be deceived by the tricky blend of piety and physical allurements that Miss Taylor presents. But don't let it fool you. It's the same old Hollywood stuff."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times

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