Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
3.0 of 5 from 48 ratings
2h 3min
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- Synopsis:
Sarah Miles stars as the dazzling mercurial Lady Caroline and Richard Chamberlain is the brilliant romantic Lord Byron in this lavish retelling of the most notorious cabinet-level sex scandal of the 19th century. Lady Caroline well married to a future Prime Minister meets and captures the gifted Lord Byron. Openly flaunting her affair she finally embarrasses both her poet lover and her own mother-in-law Lady Melbourne (Margaret Leighton). Cast off by Byron Caroline botches a public suicide creating a scandal that rocks society and threatens William Lamb's career. After an unsuccessful attempt to use the Duke of Wellington (Laurence Olivier) for her purposes lady Caroline agrees to give up Lamb and live alone. In a stormy finale Caroline meets a tragic end... - Actors:
- Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton, Pamela Brown, Silvia Monti, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Caterina Boratto, Peter Bull, Charles Carson, Sonia Dresdel, Nicholas Field, Felicity Gibson
- Directors:
- Robert Bolt
- Writers:
- Robert Bolt
- Others:
- Richard Rodney Bennett, Carmen Dillon
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 2, Getting to Know: John Mills, Historical British Prime Ministers On Screen, Top 10 Films and Shows About British Princes, Top 10 Films of 1972
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