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The Sandpiper
Directed by
Vincente Minnelli
Not Rated
1965
1h 57m
Drama
,
Romance
6.2
21%
46%
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A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
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Cast of The Sandpiper
Elizabeth Taylor
Laura Reynolds
Richard Burton
Edward Hewitt
Eva Marie Saint
Claire Hewitt
Charles Bronson
Cos Erickson
Robert Webber
Ward Hendricks
James Edwards
Larry Brant
Torin Thatcher
le juge Thompson
Tom Drake
Walter Robinson
Douglas Henderson
Phil Sutcliff
Morgan Mason
Danny Reynolds
Paul Genge
Architect (uncredited)
John Abbey
Trooper (uncredited)
Jan Arvan
Trustee (uncredited)
Mary Benoit
Trustee's Wife (uncredited)
Shirley Bonne
Celebrant #9 (uncredited)
Dusty Cadis
Trooper (uncredited)
Joan Connors
Celebrant #7 (uncredited)
Tom Crane
Walter Robinson (uncredited)
Tom Curtis
Trustee (uncredited)
Jeff Davis
Administrator (uncredited)
Colin Drake
Administrator (uncredited)
Fred Fisher
Administrator (uncredited)
Mel Gallagher
Celebrant #4 (uncredited)
Kelton Garwood
Celebrant #2 (uncredited)
Max Gulak
Administrator (uncredited)
Ginger Hall
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Harper
The Sandpiper (uncredited)
John Hart
Trooper (uncredited)
Rex Holman
Celebrant #1 (uncredited)
April Hyde
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Peggy Jackson
Celebrant #8 (uncredited)
Peter Jackson
Administrator (uncredited)
Patricia Manning
Woman (uncredited)
Pamela Mason
Ellie (uncredited)
Jimmy Murphy
Celebrant #3 (uncredited)
Nico
Dancer at the Party (uncredited)
Jo O'Toole
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Peter O'Toole
(voice) (uncredited)
Jean Peaslee
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Douglas Read
Boy (uncredited)
Diane Sayer
Celebrant #6 (uncredited)
June Shelley
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Shelly Sidney
Celebrant #10 (uncredited)
Eric Sinclair
Beatnik (uncredited)
Barbara Sommers
Dancer at the Party (uncredited)
Roscoe Stallworth
Beatnik (uncredited)
Anthony Stuart
Administrator (uncredited)
Carl Studer
Harold (uncredited)
Olga Valéry
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Sophie Veneck
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Ron Whelan
Celebrant #5 (uncredited)
T.D. White
Beatnik (uncredited)
The Sandpiper Ratings & Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A superfluous, ponderous and pretentious sudser about a married minister having an affair with a single mom non-conformist artist.
New York Daily News
Wanda Hale
As Mr. and Mrs., Elizabeth and Richard take full advantage of the opportunity to scorch the screen with torrid lovemaking, the first chance they've had to indulge in such cinematic intimacy.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
If anyone had suggested to me that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton could be beaten out by the background scenery of a co-starring film, I would never have believed it. But that is what has happened in The Sandpiper.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
When I note, in this instance, that The Sandpiper is for adults I mean less that younger folk should be kept away from it than that younger folk will find it a bore and a drag.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
To put it briefly, this is just a soap opera, loaded with sex, embellished with scenery and incredibly silly. It also offers some dreadful dialog.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
The picture belongs to its two stars, the Technicolored rolling surf captured so beautifully by the camera and to tender direction by Vincente Minnelli.
Miami Herald
George Bourke
The story as a whole never gets far afield of "the thing" between the Burtons.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Talbot
Yes, it's a laughably fictitious version of California bohemia in the mid-'60s. But it still channels Taylor's feisty spirit and the heartfelt bond she felt for the outcasts of the world.
Detroit Free Press
Louis Cook
It is not often that technical matters intrude themselves into a movie, but the amateurishness in the direction of Sandpiper is painfully obvious.
Arizona Republic
William J. Nazzaro
Vincente Minnelli has directed this minor epic in pedestrian style, the acting is mostly indifferent, though Burton does manage to rise above his material, and the general atmosphere is one of extreme blandness.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
The Sandpiper's absurd situations are matched by dialogue that beauty (hers) and talent (his) cannot vanquish.
Variety
Variety Staff
Trite and often ponderous in its philosophizing by the two principals.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
A viewer who is not careful may be deceived by the tricky blend of piety and physical allurements that Miss Taylor presents. But don't let it fool you. It's the same old Hollywood stuff.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's Vincente Minnelli filming Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, and Charles Bronson in 35-millimeter 'Scope, and doing what he can with a campy script by Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilson.
San Francisco Examiner
Stanley Eichelbaum
The tritely-contrived story is rather difficult to digest. And the Burtons, who are unquestionably dynamic performers, deserve something more than a trying little tale of adultery that many will identify with the stars' off-screen image.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Underrated feminist drama.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
It must rank as one of the most expensive and pretentious loads of garbage ever foisted upon an adoring public.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A star vehicle for Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, The Sandpiper is one of Minnelli's most embarrassing films, which is poorly scripted (by Dalton Trumbo), helmed, and acted and doesn't even qualify as high camp.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Take a snapshot of Taylor next to her wooden likeness and you'd need a caption to distinguish between the two.
Movieline
Kevin Hennessey
The question is not why the couple made this movie (money) but how [Taylor and Burton] both managed to keep a straight face while shooting it.
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