Barry Lyndon sights on Thackeray's 1844 "satirical picaresque about the fortune-hunting of an Irish rogue," "Barry Lyndon", the setting of which allowed Kubrick to take advantage of the copious period research he had done for the now-aborted "Napoleon". At the time, Kubrick merely announced that his next film would star Ryan O'Neal (deemed "a seemingly un-Kubricky choice of leading man") and Marisa Berenson, a former "Vogue" and "Time" magazine cover model, and be shot largely in Ireland. So heightened was the secrecy surrounding the film that "Even Berenson, when Kubrick first approached her, was told only that it was to be an
The Man Who Played God (1932 film) engagements in Los Angeles and New York on February 9 and 10 respectively, the film went into general release on February 20. It was modestly successful at the box office and made a profit for the studio. It became one of Arliss' most popular films. In England, censors objected to the picture's title and it was released as "The Silent Voice". According to Warner Bros records the film earned $536,000 domestically and $299,000 foreign. It was the studio's most popular picture of 1931-32. Mordaunt Hall of "The New York Times" opined, "It is a neatly conceived story as it comes