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Becket |
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1964
Color
2 hours and 18 minutes
Academy Awards
- Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- Edward Anhalt
Academy Award Nominations
- Best Picture
- Hal B. Wallis
- Director
- Peter Glenville
- Actor
- Richard Burton
Peter O'Toole- Supporting Actor
- John Gielgud
- Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
- John Bryan (I)
Maurice Carter
Robert Cartwright|
Patrick McLoughlin- Cinematography, Color
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Costume Design, Color
- Margaret Furse
- Film Editing
- Anne V. Coates
- Score - Substantially Original
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Sound
- John Cox
When King Henry II appoints his drinking buddy Thomas Á Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, he believes he has placed a malleable ally in the most powerful ecclesiastical post in England. But Becket surprises Henry by taking his new position seriously, and he is more often than not at odds with his old friend the king. A battle of wills ensues that explodes their friendship and ends in tragedy.
The outstanding script is well-played out by a superb cast. Peter O'Toole is forceful as Henry Plantagenet, a role he would reprise four years later in The Lion in Winter with equal vigor. Richard Burton displays his usual range as the one-time carouser coming to grips with his spiritual duty. The result is a captivating and thought-provoking drama.
Find out more about Becket and Henry II in Who's Who in Medieval History.
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