David Lean's epic combination of physical deeds and mental agony. Peter O'Toole shot to first-rank stardom with his performance as the inscrutable young Army officer who started off by loving the desert and its way of life, and ended, two action-filled years later, half-demented and hating every grain of sand.

O'Toole's strange, brooding portrait of Lawrence marked him out as an actor of the first magnitude. But there is also Quinn's intelligently played Arab chief; IS Johar's marvellously human Gasim; Donald Wolfit's one-scene triumph as an army officer; and Alec Guinness's Feisal - almost as indefinable a character as Lawrence himself.

Early scenes of the desert are especially moving, as is Lawrence's relationship with a Bedouin who is shortly to be killed by a tribal chief. Outstanding.