An excerpt of Becket

Duration: 0:29:11

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1964 Paramount Pictures feature film, "Becket". Connects scenes from the feature film by narrative summaries, emphasizing the conflict between church and state, personified in the struggle between Thomas Becket and King Henry II. Shows King Henry elevating Becket to the chancellorship of the realm; his later appointment of Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury; the conflict which occurs between the two after a baron kills a priest; Becket's meeting with Pope Alexander III, who refuses to relieve him from the duties of Archbishop; Becket's decision to return to England; his meeting with Henry on the shore at Freteval; and his murder in church by barons. Presents Richard Burton as Thomas Becket and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II.

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