Barry Lyndon voice-over (by actor Michael Hordern), the comments expressed are not Barry's, but those of an omniscient narrator. Kubrick felt that using a first-person narrative would not be useful in a film adaptation: Kubrick made several changes to the plot, including the addition of the final duel. Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger. The film recounts the early exploits and later unraveling of a fictional 18th-century
The Man Who Played God (1932 film) Wholesome, and Dull". The film was itself a retooling of the 1922 silent movie of the same name. The most evident difference between these two was that the earlier film finished with the protagonist's hearing restored, a plot contrivance that garnered negative reviews and was ditched in the 1932 version. Arliss adapted the screenplay to radio in 1938 reprising his role as Royle. A radio version starring Raymond Massey was also presented on "Philip Morris Playhouse" April 17, 1942. In 1955 Warners revised the story again as "Sincerely Yours" with Liberace in the lead as a pianist whose hearing comes