Barry Lyndon

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Barry Lyndon, 1975.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Barry Lyndon, 1975.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Barry Lyndon, 1975.

Over an hour into the film, director Stanley Kubrick introduces second-billed Marisa Berenson as the Countess Of Lyndon, Frank Middlemass her invalid husband, Murray Melvin her aide, the Reverend Runt, attracting the now jaded European-adventurer hero, Ryan O’Neal, in Barry Lyndon, 1975.

The title character (Ryan O’Neal) has hidden himself within the British army, in the belief that he’s wanted for killing an officer in a duel, his ally Grogan (Godfrey Quigley), arriving to explain what really happened back home in Ireland, director Stanley Kubrick using only candlelight, in Barry Lyndon, 1975.

Director Stanley Kubrick’s initial exercise in natural, period (non-electrical) lighting in an interior scene, and also the first appearance of star Ryan O’Neal, Gay Hamilton his alluring cousin, Michael Hordern’s caustic narration from the William Makepeace Thackeray novel, early in Barry Lyndon, 1975.

Deliberate staging by director Stanley Kubrick, spineless British Captain Quin (Leonard Rossiter) in his duel with the headstrong Irish hero (Ryan O’Neal), who won’t be dissuaded by friendly officer Grogan (Godfrey Quigley), Academy Award-winning Cinematography by John Alcott, in Barry Lyndon, 1975.

An Irish rogue (Ryan O'Neal) cheats his way to the top of 18th-century British society in Stanley Kubrick's lush adaptation of the Thackeray novel Barry Lyndon (1975).