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The Sandpiper ()

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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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  • Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
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Laura Reynolds
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Dr. Edward Hewitt
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Claire Hewitt
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Cos Erickson
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Ward Hendricks
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Larry Brant
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Judge Thompson
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Walter Robinson
Douglas Henderson ...
Phil Sutcliff (as Doug Henderson)
Morgan Mason ...
Danny Reynolds
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Abbey ...
Trooper (uncredited)
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Trustee (uncredited)
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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)
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Celebrant #2 (uncredited)
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Architect (uncredited)
Max Gulak ...
Administrator (uncredited)
Ginger Hall ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Harper ...
The Sandpiper (uncredited)
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Trooper (uncredited)
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Celebrant #1 (uncredited)
April Hyde ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Peggy Jackson ...
Celebrant #8 (uncredited)
Peter Jackson ...
Administrator (uncredited)
Patricia Manning ...
Woman (uncredited)
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Ellie (uncredited)
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Celebrant #3 (uncredited)
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Dancer at the Party (uncredited)
Jo O'Toole ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
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(uncredited) (voice)
Jean Peaslee ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Douglas Read ...
Boy (uncredited)
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Celebrant #6 (uncredited)
June Shelley ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Shelly Sidney ...
Celebrant #10 (uncredited)
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Beatnik (uncredited)
Barbara Sommers ...
Dancer at the Party (uncredited)
Roscoe Stallworth ...
Beatnik (uncredited)
Anthony Stuart ...
Administrator (uncredited)
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Harold (uncredited)
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Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Sophie Veneck ...
Administrator's Wife (uncredited)
Ron Whelan ...
Celebrant #5 (uncredited)
T.D. White ...
Beatnik (uncredited)

Directed by

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Vincente Minnelli

Written by

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Martin Ransohoff ... (story)
 
Irene Kamp ... (adaptation) &
Louis Kamp ... (adaptation)
 
Dalton Trumbo ... (screenplay) and
Michael Wilson ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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John Calley ... associate producer
Martin Ransohoff ... producer

Music by

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Johnny Mandel

Cinematography by

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Milton R. Krasner ... director of photography (as Milton Krasner)

Editing by

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David Bretherton

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George W. Davis
Urie McCleary

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F. Keogh Gleason ... (as Keogh Gleason)
Henry Grace

Costume Design by

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Irene Sharaff

Makeup Department

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Sydney Guilaroff ... hair stylist
John Truwe ... makeup artist
William Tuttle ... makeup supervisor

Production Management

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Ben Kadish ... supervising production executive
Lindsley Parsons Jr. ... assistant production manager: MGM (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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William McGarry ... assistant director
Lynn Guthrie ... second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Elizabeth Duquette ... painter: Laura's paintings
Edmund Kara ... sculptor: redwood sculpture

Sound Department

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Franklin Milton ... recording supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department

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Dick Borden ... wildlife cinematography
Richard Borden ... wildlife photography
Bernie Abramson ... still photographer (uncredited)
Douglas Kirkland ... still photographer (uncredited)

Music Department

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Robert Armbruster ... conductor
Billy Byers ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Gene Cipriano ... musician (uncredited)
Vince De Rosa ... musician: french horn (uncredited)
Tommy Johnson ... musician: tuba (uncredited)
Artie Kane ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Jack Sheldon ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Herb Rosenthal ... title art
Eduardo Tirella ... coordinator of "Big Sur" scene
Kaffe Fassett ... choreographer: dancing sequence (uncredited)
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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Twenty-something Laura Reynolds (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) is a free spirit who questions social conventions, laws, and regulations. A struggling artist, she lives in a secluded beachside cabin in Big Sur with her 9-year-old illegitimate son Danny (Morgan Mason), in whom she instills her values. Because of this questioning of convention, she has decided to home-school him; because of this questioning of the law, Danny runs into legal problems and is court-ordered to be sent to San Simeon, a Christian school in Monterey, California. This order is against Laura's wishes. The school's headmaster is Dr. Reverend Edward Hewitt (Richard Burton), who tries to convince Laura that San Simeon is not the prison she imagines. Married for 21 years to faithful Claire (Eva Marie Saint), Edward has become more a fund-raiser at all cost (for a new chapel) rather than an educator or Priest. Despite their differences, Laura and Edward begin to fall for each other and both, especially Edward, must reconcile their feelings for each other to their beliefs, which they learn are closer to each other than they thought. Their feelings also bring to the forefront what each really wants in life beyond their current lot. Written by Huggo

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Taglines AN ADULT LOVE STORY See more »
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Also Known As
  • Flight of the Sandpiper (United States)
  • Le chevalier des sables (France)
  • ...die alles begehren (Germany)
  • Castillos en la arena (Spain)
  • Út a szeretet felé (Hungary)
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Runtime
  • 117 min
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Box Office

Budget $5,300,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $15,260,000

Did You Know?

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Trivia Richard Burton tried to get out of making this movie but he was under contractual obligation. See more »
Goofs Claire Hewitt tells her husband that Danny "was reciting the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Old English." The language Chaucer wrote in, and that Danny recites in, is Middle English, not Old English. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Elizabeth Taylor - An Intimate Portrait (1975). See more »
Soundtracks The Shadow of Your Smile See more »
Quotes Laura Reynolds: [they're on the beach, along the Big Sur] I feel as alone as Robinson Crusoe. Even with the footprints of a man beside me.
Dr. Edward Hewitt: You should always have a man's footprints beside you, Laura.
Laura Reynolds: How do you know I haven't always?
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Because you're afraid of them...
Laura Reynolds: But I'm not as afraid as you think.
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Do you think that one of these days Danny's going to feel somehow that you robbed him of a father?
Laura Reynolds: Well, that's a chance I'm gonna' have to take. Do you know something? If I were a devoted widow, and Danny's father were a dead war hero, would you be pitching me this bit about finding a second father to replace the dead one?
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Touché.
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