Lady Caroline Lamb | |
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![]() Theatrical release poster, artwork by Ted CoConis | |
Directed by | Robert Bolt |
Written by | Robert Bolt |
Produced by | Franco Cristaldi Fernando Ghia Bernard Williams |
Starring | Sarah Miles Jon Finch Richard Chamberlain Laurence Olivier |
Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
Edited by | Norman Savage |
Music by | Richard Rodney Bennett |
Production company | Pulsar Productions |
Distributed by | MGM-EMI (UK) United Artists (US) |
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Running time | 123 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,500,000[1] or £2 million[2] |
Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 British epic romantic drama film based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (later Prime Minister). The only film written and directed by Robert Bolt, it starred his wife, Sarah Miles,[3] as Lady Caroline, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Margaret Leighton and Michael Wilding.