The Economist (US), February 18th, 1989
Best supporting role: the desert Lawrence restored
NO ARAB loves the desert, Prince Feisal tells T.E. Lawrence as the young English lieutenant speeds off to lead the Bedouin revolt against the Turks. Lawrence, however, is head over heels in love with the desert, clean ideals and himself. Mr David Lean's magnificent, and admirably restored, "Lawrence of Arabia" tracks his rake's progress, within the confines of the 1917-18 revolt, to a blood-stained butcher, self-hating, his ideals betrayed. The tale is rich and the actors talented. But it is the desert, astonishing in its reds and oranges a...
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