Posted on 12/08/2013 12:41:29 PM PST by ReformationFan
Good flick.
Ping
Indeed. Great actors and a great story.
I miss these actors.
Excellent choice! Should immediately be double featured with THE LION IN WINTER.
I saw “Becket” at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles in the fall of 1964. It is, indeed, a great story—sort of a twelfth-century Watergate scandal. However, at the time, I found the film to be too slow-moving, and so did my mother, who described it as we were seeing it as “a movie that doesn’t move.”
At the time, I preferred films with lots of action, such as “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” which I saw at the Cinerama in Hollywood earlier in the year.
Thank you!
Beckett threatening the souls of the people sent to get him was epic.
Thanks for the information. I will try to find time to watch it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole_filmography
OTooles recent filmography is very Christian oriented.
Although his quotes towards the faith are deist or very luke warm.
1999 Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999 Joan of Arc Bishop Pierre Cauchon
2002 Global Heresy Lord Charles Foxley
2008 The Tudors Pope Paul III
2009 God’s Spy
2010 Mary Mother of Christ Symeon
2012 Cristiada Father Christopher
2013 Katherine of Alexandria Gallus
Good film. O’toole is probably my favourite actor. Anthony Hopkins would be #2.
IAMMMMW is a good movie too albeit a very different type of good movie than Becket.
Indeed. Thanks for posting Joe 6-pack.
The two of them would be good casting for the lead two roles in Becket. I’ve read that Burton and O’Toole also played these roles on stage and on occasion switched roles(O’Toole played Becket and Burton played Henry II).
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Actually, neither played it onstage. In fact, it's a sore subject with the Royal Shakespeare Company, who bought the rights to the play in order that O'Toole could play the king. However, O'Toole opted instead to break his RSC contract and do Lawrence of Arabia instead. It was particularly galling to the RSC that O'Toole ended up doing the film after stiffing them on the play (they got Christopher Plummer to replace O'Toole onstage).
The original broadway stars were Olivier and Anthony Quinn. Olivier figured out during the run that Henry II was the flashier part; so when Quinn left the play (also to appear in Lawrence), Olivier took the part of the king and Arthur Kennedy played Becket. Ironically, Kennedy's next role was to replace the ailing Edmund O'Brien in....Lawrence of Arabia.
Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton at their respective best. These two gentlemen drank enough booze to float a battleship. O’Toole somehow survived.
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