Title | Becket -blu |
Year | 1964 |
Time | 148 mins |
Genre | Biography; Drama; History |
Director | Peter Glenville |
Edition | Blu-Ray Edition |
Format | Blu-ray Disc |
Actor | Peter O'Toole as King Henry II; John Gielgud as King Louis VII of France; Richard Burton as Thomas � Becket; Si�n Phillips as Gwendolen; Edward Woodward as Clement; Geoffrey Bayldon as Brother Philip; Felix Aylmer as Archbishop of Canterbury; Paolo Stoppa as Pope Alexander III; Donald Wolfit as Bishop Folliot; Pamela Brown as Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine]; Martita Hunt as Empress Matilda; David Weston as Brother John; Patrick Newell as William of Corbeil; Frank Pettingell as Bishop of York; Gino Cervi as Cardinal Zambelli |
Rating | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Language | English |
Plot | King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. |
Producer | Hal B. Wallis; Joseph H. Hazen |
Writer | Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh |
Subtitles | English |