The Sandpiper
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| The Sandpiper | |
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| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
| Produced by | Martin Ransohoff |
| Written by | Irene Kamp Louis Kamp Michael Wilson Dalton Trumbo |
| Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Eva Marie Saint Charles Bronson |
| Music by | Johnny Mandel |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| Release date(s) | 1965 |
| Running time | 117 min |
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The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and directed by Vincente Minnelli. Taylor portrays a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son in an isolated beach house on the California coast. Her son gets into trouble with the law, and a judge orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Burton is headmaster. Burton's priest character is initially horrified by Taylor's unconventional morals, but quickly begins a torrid extramarital affair with her. The film also stars Eva Marie Saint as Burton's long-suffering wife and Charles Bronson as an avant-garde beach bum and sculptor. The song from this picture, "The Shadow Of Your Smile," won the Academy Award.
[edit] Trivia
Spoofed in MAD Magazine in 1965 as "The Sinpiper".
Many of the outdoor shots were filmed on location in Big Sur, while the interiors were shot on a soundstage in France.
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