TCM Greatest Classic Legends Film Collection: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

The multi-character drama "The V.I.P.s" (1963) looks at the lives and loves of a group of people waiting at a London airport. A woman (Elizabeth Taylor) is caught between the husband she has recently fled (Richard Burton) and a suave Lothario (Louis Jourdan); Orson Welles is a filmmaker; Rod Taylor an Australian businessman; and Oscar-winning Margaret Rutherford a dotty duchess. Next, Vincente Minnelli directs Taylor and Burton in "The Sandpiper" (1965), about a liberated artist who begins a torrid romance with a conservative (and married) minister. Contains the Oscar-winning theme "The Shadow of Your Smile." And, political and romantic intrigue ensue in Duvalier-ruled Haiti in "The Comedians" (1967), with Taylor as a South American diplomat's wife who gets involved with naive businessman-turned-anti-government rebel Burton. Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Lillian Gish also star in Graham Greene's story. Four-disc set also includes "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 8 1/2 hrs. total. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English.