Barry Lyndon

Ryan O Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick s lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic 18thcentury novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. . Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He changes his name and marries an aristocrat (Berenson) for her wealth, but the acceptance he seeks finally eludes him.