Indeed it would not have. T.E.Lawrence is believed to have been gay in any event, which would have made for a really adventurous film at the time. Mind you, there was more than one film maker who would have happily overlooked that dilemma anyway! I go along with Little Hawk's view that the film was not particularly focused on war anyway. It was some film though, as was "Bridge Over The River Kwai". I have always liked those genuinely moral tales. We could have a theme for yet another thread there - moral films...