I’m so used to seeing photos of Richard Burton with Liz Taylor that it seems surprising to see him with another woman! He and Sophia Loren made a remake of Brief Encounter in 1974, so I’m guessing that photo is from around that time. Although why someone would want to remake such an amazing movie is beyond me. The original was wonderful, I wonder whether their version was any good…? Burton was notorious for trying it on with his leading ladies, do you think anything happened between him and Sophia Loren?
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You’re right, Mary.
The original caption states “The Italian actress Sofia Loren with actor Richard Burton upon arrival on an Iberia plane at Fuenterrabía airport to attend the San Sebastián Film Festival (1974)”. I suppose it was a flight from Rome.
They competed for Il Viaggio (The Voyage, sometimes confusedly called Brief Encounter) from Vittorio de Sica, based on a novel from Pirandello (with a quite different plot from Brief Encounter).
Sofia Loren was to win the Award for Best Actress. The critics however didn’t like the movie for being too superficial.
As always, Dirk, you are a real authority on everything movie-related! You’re a very interesting and useful person to know, thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙂 My assumption that it was a remake of the original movie was completely wrong, so thanks for putting me right on that. I thought it sounded odd that they would remake such a perfect movie, but then again the remade ‘The Italian Job’ so I couldn’t be sure!
I’ve been meaning to ask actually, you seem to have such great movie knowledge, would you be interested in doing a guest post on here some time? 🙂
With great pleasure !
fantastic thanks, I’ll drop you an email 🙂
You were right ! The same year (1974) Sofia Loren and Richard Burton did play in a remake for TV from Brief Encounter which led to the confusion with “The Voyage”. The movie didn’t get any good reviews either.
http://movieclassics.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/brief-encounter-1974/