]Just one year after playing catcher "Crash" Davis inBull Durham (1988), Kevin Costner appeared in this second sports film - another baseball-themed pro-Americana film coupled with the religious themes of faith and redemption.[Note: This film was competing with the recent memory of the irreverent and whimsicalButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)that had completely modernized the legendary American western, with humorous dialogue, a pop soundtrack, and slapstick.You understand, Lieutenant Lawrence, my people are unused to explosives and machines.First the guns and now this.The thousands of Bedouins are amassed and moved further south for protection.In a technically-accomplished scene in Feisal""s tent, Sherif Ali appears (viewed first from the waist down), where Lawrence and British Colonel Brighton discuss with the wise and prophet-like Prince Feisal how the British may help absorb the Arabs into the British campaign.They then went to his house, where they listened to phonograph records, and discussed how female co-workers found him "very mysterious and interesting" - with "a remarkable body.