Tony Palmer’s 121 minute portrait of actor Richard Burton, featuring Sally Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Burton, Philip Burton, Lauren Bacall, Joe Mankiewicz, Mike Nichols, Robert Hardy, Sir John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Emlyn Williams and John Neville.
“With this film, Palmer has created a highly original form of dramatic biography, exploring an extraordinary potential for complexity in a medium commonly dismissed as essentially simplistic, a textbook demonstration also of how to create a compelling narrative from source material which varies from dull to sublime.” The Times
