[ReformationFan]

Today's feature seems timely with the increasingly antagonistic tone the state is taking towards the church nowadays.

[BenLurkin]

Good flick.

[ReformationFan]

Ping

[Beowulf9]

I miss these actors.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Excellent choice! Should immediately be double featured with THE LION IN WINTER.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[AppyPappy]

Beckett threatening the souls of the people sent to get him was epic.

[Spunky]

Thanks for the information. I will try to find time to watch it.

[beaversmom]

Good film. O’toole is probably my favourite actor. Anthony Hopkins would be #2.

[Rummyfan]

Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton at their respective best. These two gentlemen drank enough booze to float a battleship. O’Toole somehow survived.

[windcliff]

ping

[Hieronymus]

Thanks for the link—great movie that I look forward to showing the kids—his feast is in the Christmas Octave so the reminder is timely. The excommunication scene is absolutely awesome (though I rather doubt that it reflects the liturgical practice of that time, or any time for that matter).