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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.
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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