The Sandpiper (US, 1965)


Figure 1.--Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-spirited, unwed mother with artistic pretentions. She is attempting to raise her son Danny (Morgan Mason). Morgan Mason is the son of film star James Mason. He plays his part nicely. He did not have a major acting career, but appeared in a few TV programs. Laura and Danny live an idelic life on Big Sur--California's Pacific coast. The setting certainly is dramatic.

"The Sandpiper" is a rather pretentious, meant to be torid love story starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Vincent Minnelli directed them in their third film. Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-spirited, unwed mother with artistic pretentions. She is attempting to raise her son Danny (Morgan Mason). Morgan Mason is the son of film star James Mason. He plays his part nicely. He did not have a major acting career, but appeared in a few TV programs. Laura and Danny live an idelic life on Big Sur--California's Pacific coast. The setting certainly is dramatic. She believes in free love and had set out to have Danny without any attachment to his father. She has other issues and doesn't care for schools and conventional teaching methods. teaches him at home, instilling her unconventiinal views and morals. Danny gets into trouble when he shoots a dear. A judge orders him enrolled in a a school. For some reason his mother chooses a staid Episcopal boarding school. This brings the very proper Dr. Edward Heath (Richard Burton) into the film. Dr. Heath is the school's headmaster. He is initially agast at Laura's rather challenged moral code--with good reason. He is apauled by her lack of restraint and conventional morals. She proceeds to seduce him. A rageing affair soon bloosoms, complicated by the fact that Heath is married and has two children. Claire Heath (Eva Marie Saint) proves to be a long-suffering sole. Cos Erickson (Charles Bronson) enters the picture as a beach bum and would be sculptor. Dr. Heath is drawn into thecaffair, but at thecsame time is wracked with guilt over his moral failings. The most nptable achievement of the film was that the theme song, "The Shadow Of Your Smile", won the Academy Award.







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