The Sandpiper

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Sandpiper, 1965.

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces The Sandpiper, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Sandpiper, 1965.

The first meeting of principals Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their first picture after Cleopatra, 1963, he’s the Episcopal priest headmaster of a California boarding school, she’s the free-spirited mother of a son sent there by a judge, Eva Marie Saint his wife, in The Sandpiper, 1965.

Big Sur artist and single mom Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) and friend Larry (James Edwards) are being rebuffed by gallery owner Ellie (Pamela Mason) when Hewitt (Richard Burton), priest and headmaster of the school where her son’s been sent, arrives with a generous attitude, in The Sandpiper

After the opening in which lightly-parented Big Sur resident Danny (Morgan Mason) shot a deer, he and his artist mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) are called before a local judge (Torin Thatcher), Vincente Minnelli directing, early in the Taylor and Richard Burton vehicle The Sandpiper, 1965.

Providing the title, Big Sur-area boarding school headmaster and Episcopal priest Hewitt (Richard Burton) on a home visit with Laura (Elizabeth Taylor), the never-married artist mother of a boy remanded to him by a judge, in The Sandpiper, 1965, from an original screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilson.

An Episcopal priest (Richard Burton) falls for a bohemian artist (Elizabeth Taylor) living in Big Sur in The Sandpiper (1965).