...Baby Doll: I""m movin"" to the Kotton King Hotel.I am moving to he Kotton King Hotel.I""m gonna get me a good-payin"" job.The manager of the Kotton King Hotel helped carry my daddy""s coffin.He""ll give me work.Archie: What sort of work do you think you could do?Baby Doll: I could curl hair in a beauty parlor...Uh, I reckon hat I could, uh, be a hostess - smile at people comin"" in a place.Archie: What place?Baby Doll: Any place! I could be a, uh, cashier.Archie: (laughing) Aw honey, you can""t count change.Baby Doll: I could pass out menus or programs or somethin"" and say hello to people...As Baby Doll calls the Kotton King Hotel to reserve a room for the next morning, Archie wanders into the yard, upset and tense and requiring a swig from his bottle." However, Prewitt insists that he hasn""t been boxing for over a year, because of a tragic accident - he blinded an opponent while sparring in the ring.The film focuses on four major events in Lawrence""s life - told in flashback:the glorious conquest of the key port of AqabaLawrence""s capture, torture, and rape in Deraathe vicious "no prisoners" massacre at Tafasthe anti-climactic fall of Damascus, with an end o dreams of unityIn 1962 when the film first opened, it was 222 minutes long, but it was subsequently cut down by 35 minutes to 187 minutes, and not restored to 217 minutes until 1989.We just sort of go along and nothing happens.We""re in a terrible rut.It""s been on my mind for months.What""s gonna be our future?Father: (consoling) Oh, come now, Charlie, things aren""t as bad as hat.The bank gave me a raise last January.Charlie: Money.How can you talk about money when I""m talking about souls? We eat and sleep and that""s about all.We don""t even have any real conversations.We just talk...Father:...and work.Charlie: Yes, poor mother, she works like a dog, just like a dog...When she comes back, it will be the same thing.Dinner, then dishes, then bed.I don""t see how she stands it.You know, she""s really a wonderful woman.I mean, she""s not just a mother.And I think we ought to do something for her.Don""t you think we should?Father: Yeah.What were you thinking of doing for her?Charlie: Oh, nothing I supppose.I guess we""ll just have to wait for a miracle - or something...I don""t believe in good intentions anymore.All I""m waiting for now is a miracle.Suddenly, Charlie""s spinsterish, talkative and oblivious mother Emma Newton (Patricia Collinge) [Emma was the name of Hitchcock""s mother - she died in England during filming] makes a dramatic appearance at the bedroom door, speaking her first words [and foreshadowing an "accident" that will occur later in the film]: "Those back stairs are steep.