The Sandpiper (1965)

Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) light up the screen in this romantic drama about a schoolboy's mother who becomes involved with the married headmaster of a Californian boarding school. Also starring Eva Marie Saint (Superman Returns, North by Northwest) and Charles Bronson (Once Upon a Time in the West, Death Wish). Directed by Oscar-winner Vincente Minnelli (Gigi, An American in Paris). Filmed in California's breathtaking Big Sur and winner of an Academy Award for Best Song.