List
Becket
General Details
Director:
Peter Glenville
Writer:
Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill
Producer:
Hal B. Wallis, Joseph H. Hazen
Theatrical:
1964
Rated:
PG-13
Studio:
Paramount Film Service
Genre:
Biography
Duration:
148
IMDb:
0057877
DVD Details
Languages:
English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Commentary by Peter O'Toole , Dolby Digital 2.0; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
Picture Format:
Widescreen
UPC:
030306105390
Discs:
1
Region:
1
Release:
May 2007
Price:
$24.98
Credits
Thomas à Becket
Richard Burton
King Henry II
Peter O'Toole
King Louis VII of France
John Gielgud
Cardinal Zambelli
Gino Cervi
Pope Alexander III
Paolo Stoppa
Bishop Folliot
Donald Wolfit
Brother John
David Weston
Empress Matilda
Martita Hunt
Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine]
Pamela Brown
Gwendolen (as Sian Phillips)
Siân Phillips
Archbishop of Canterbury
Felix Aylmer
Baron
Percy Herbert
Robert de Beaumont
Inigo Jackson
Baron
Niall MacGinnis
Baron
Christopher Rhodes
Cinematographer
Geoffrey Unsworth
Editor
Anne V. Coates
Summary
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 than his predecessors were able to do. This leads to the famous "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"