7/22/2013

BURT LANCASTER AS THE PRINCE OF SALINA IN THE LEOPARD




















"I was thinking that these frequent marriages between cousins...
















...do not improve the stock.  Look at them."
















"They look like monkeys, ready to clamber up the chandeliers...
















..and swing by their tails, showing their behinds."
















THE LEOPARD (1963).
Directed by Luchino Visconti. Cinematogarphy by Giuseppe Rotunno. 
Based on the novel Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Original Music by Nino Rota.  Costume Design by Piero Tosi.
Starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Terence Hill, Burt Lancaster,
Rina Morelli, Lucilla Morlacchi, Paolo Stoppa and Romolo Valli.

Original DVD framegrab photographs by Will Holub 2013.