Becket

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

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1964 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Anhalt

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,598
Rating: 4/4 -- Watching Becket is to see a form of stylized, epic moviemaking not practiced today.
Salt Lake Tribune
Apr 20, 2007
The real fascination here is the pairing of Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, both of whom give superb performances.
Sight and Sound
Aug 1, 2007
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
Mar 8, 2007
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. Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Oct 14, 2011
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Everything that Doctor Strangelove is -- daring and inspired, vibrant and brilliantly staged -- Becket is not. Full Review
Boston Globe
Feb 23, 2007
Rating: B+ -- Burton is extraordinary in one of his rare good movie roles and O'Toole is regally madcap and larger than life. Full Review
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 8, 2007
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. Full Review
Washington Post
Mar 1, 2007

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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  • Sales Rank: 20,897
  • UPC: 030306105390
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