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In the eighteenth century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry (Ryan ONeal) is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton). When Nora gets engaged to British Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter), Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, where he saves the life of his Captain and becomes his protégé and spy of Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari (Patrick Magee). He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson). They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.
The rise and fall of the adult life of Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan ONeal), who, in his later life, would be known as Barry Lyndon, from the mid to late eighteenth century, is presented. Growing up in humble means, largely due to the early death of his aspiring lawyer father, the potential family breadwinner, Barry strives to live up to the standards of being a gentleman in every respect of the word, including monetarily. He leads a disjointed early adult life in trying to find his way, sometimes being unfairly given some hard knocks as the ways of the world work around him. He seems to find his stride in falling in love with wealthy and married Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson), who he ends up marrying following the death of her elderly first husband, Sir Charles Lyndon (Frank Middlemass). In taking over the affairs of the Lyndon mansion, Barry is able to live a means of his liking, all off the Lyndons now quickly dwindling wealth due to Barrys squandering. As Barry is without money of his own, Mrs. Barry (Marie Kean) encourages her son to work toward a peerage as a means to have money of his own, as she fears that if Lady Lyndon were to die, she would leave all of what would remain of the Lyndon wealth to her son, Barrys stepson, Lord Bullingdon (Leon Vitali), with whom Barry has always had an antagonistic relationship to the point of Lord Bullingdon wanting revenge on the woes that his stepfather has created in their lives. Outwardly, Lord Bullingdon may seem to be the cause of Barrys fall, however, it may be more attributed to Barry being unable to adapt to any of the lives into which he is thrust to truly reach his goal of being a gentleman.
Ryan O'Neal
Barry Lyndon
Marisa Berenson
Lady Honoria Lyndon
Patrick Magee
The Chevalier du Balibari
Hardy Krüger
Capt. Potzdorf
Steven Berkoff
Lord Ludd
Gay Hamilton
Nora Brady
Marie Kean
Barry's Mother
Diana Körner
Lischen
Murray Melvin
Rev. Samuel Runt
Frank Middlemass
Sir Charles Lyndon
André Morell
Lord Gustavus Adolphus Wendover
Arthur O'Sullivan
Capt. Feeny - the Highwayman
Godfrey Quigley
Capt. Grogan
Leonard Rossiter
Capt. John Quin
Philip Stone
Graham
Leon Vitali
Lord Bullingdon
John Bindon
Recruiting Soldier
Roger Booth
King George III
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