Becket
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 27, 2003
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Burton | |
Performer: | Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips & Paolo Stoppa | |
Directed by | Peter Glenville | |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates | |
Written by | Edward Anhalt | |
Composition by | Laurence Rosenthal | |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis | |
Director of Photography: | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1964 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Anhalt
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Watching Becket is to see a form of stylized, epic moviemaking not practiced today.
Salt Lake Tribune
The real fascination here is the pairing of Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, both of whom give superb performances.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
Ripe with homoerotic undercurrents -- which O'Toole mines with relish in his great hysterical performance, full of cunning, eloquence and mad outbursts.
Chicago Tribune
Just as the characters' loyalties to one another are called into question, so, too are ours: Becket enters a moral grey area from which it never fully emerges.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Everything that Doctor Strangelove is -- daring and inspired, vibrant and brilliantly staged -- Becket is not.
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Boston Globe
Rating: B+ --
Burton is extraordinary in one of his rare good movie roles and O'Toole is regally madcap and larger than life.
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Christian Science Monitor
Becket may seem like a movie of yesteryear, but its timeliness brims over with rousing, meditative discourses between Henry and the church leaders on the separation of church and state.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Two of the finest actors of their generation, Burton and O'Toole, square off in this splendid production of Jean Anouilh's 1959 play. The lifelong friendship of Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, is tested and ends in tragedy as Becket grows more confident and thoughtful in his position. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor- Richard Burton, Best Actor--Peter O'Toole. Academy Awards: Best (Adapted) Screenplay (Edward Anhalt).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 20,897
- UPC: 030306105390
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