Becket
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Excerpts from Paramount's 1964 motion picture of the same title; prepared for educational use on the initiative of the American Historical Association
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Felix Aylmer
Based on a play of the same title by Jean Anouilh
A dramatization of the career of Thomas à Becket from the time of his appointment to chancellorship of England by King Henry II, through his consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury, his opposition to Henry's efforts to curtail churchly authority, and his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Felix Aylmer
Based on a play of the same title by Jean Anouilh
A dramatization of the career of Thomas à Becket from the time of his appointment to chancellorship of England by King Henry II, through his consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury, his opposition to Henry's efforts to curtail churchly authority, and his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170
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