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Near the beginning, after the corporal has burned his finger and tells the other corporal that Lawrence is balmy, O'Toole begins to run up the stairs to meet with a general. After O'Toole is out of view of the camera, you can tell he has stopped running up the stairs by his shadow on the wall not moving, because he knows that the director is about to shout "cut". See more...

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Descendants of Auda abu Tayi sued Columbia Pictures over the portrayal of their ancestor as someone only interested in loot and money. It is true that Auda did join the Arab revolt for monetary reasons at first, but he became a steadfast supporter of Arab independence. The suit went on for over ten years before the plaintiffs finally dropped the case. See more...

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 7 corrections

starring Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Peter O'Toole (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War

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When Lawrence arrives at the Suez Canal, the ship which sails past is of a 1950's design, and I think actually belonged to a company called "Blue Funnel Line". [When Lawrence arrives at the Suez Canal, the ship which sails past is of a 1950's design, belonging to a company called "Blue Funnel Line". The line existed well before World War I (indeed I migrated to Australia in 1948 on one of theirs built in 1912), so could certainly have had ships in the Suez, but not looking like that.]
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After promoting O'Toole to Major, Jack Hawkins and Co. go out for a drink. Inside the establishment, Hawkins is wearing his Sam Browne belt. Out on the veranda he is not. [As the original submitter said in a subsequent submission, Jack Hawkins puts the belt back on when he goes to leave the veranda.]
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While crossing the desert to attack Akaba, Omar Sharif reams out Peter O' Toole for wasting water shaving. However, Sharif somehow remains clean shaven throughout that campaign. [It's not the actual shaving that he's objecting to, it's the use of water while doing it. It's quite possible to shave without it.]
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On the journey to meet Prince Feisal, Lawrence is offered food by his guide and accepts using his left hand. This would have been considered an insult as Arabs always eat using the right hand. The historical Lawrence would have known better. He had spent many years in the Middle East before the war. [You are assuming that all Arab cultures are completely intolerant of Western practices, and they aren't. They do not expect their practices to be universally accepted and some, in fact, would have been amused, not insulted, at Lawrence's use of his left hand to eat.]
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During this time period the "Turkish" flag that was shown throughout the film was not the flag of the Ottoman Empire. Rather it is the modern flag of the Turkish Republic, which was founded in 1923. [Incorrect. The modern Turkish flag is the same as that of the Ottoman Empire which was standardised in 1844. See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/tr-ottom.html http://www.answers.com/topic/ottomanflag.]
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In the scene where Gassim is trudging through the Nefud Desert after having been left behind by Lawrence's party heading for Aqaba, the sun is rising. The party is traveling north towards Aqaba through the Nefud, yet the sun is rising on Gassim's left, which would be the west. Be aware of the sun's position during the following scene where Lawrence returns to the Arab camp in triumph after having rescued Gassim. The director used shots made at various times of the day, as can be seen by the characters' shadows. [The party led by Lawrence approached Akaba *from* the North. The Nefud desert extends north of Akaba, therefore the sun is rising in the right place in relation to Gasim.]
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Peter O'Toole is left-handed and he plays T. E. Lawrence, who was right-handed, so he had to pretend to be right-handed. But pay attention to the scene where he talks to Anthony Quinn, soon after the arrival in Akaba: Peter pretends to write on a paper using his right hand, but he moves it from right to left, instead of left to right, as Arabic is written. [Arabic is written from right to left.]
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