Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BECKET. In this stunning film version of Jean Anouilh's historical drama, Peter O'Toole is a brilliant King Henry II, Richard Burton a sober but solid incarnation of England's 12th century martyr...
Becket is a cerebral film spectacle based on the play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet contempt holds his master eternally in thrall...
...scythe went through six Broadway shows, and at least $500,000 of investors' money disappeared with them. Mary Martin's new musical Jennie was the biggest money loser, since its nut was $550,000 and it ran only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk...
...splendid in movies, from Kind Hearts and Coronets to Ben-Hur, in which he won an Oscar as the mock-sinister Sheik Ilderim, whose fine white horses won the chariot race. He first earned wide recognition on the West End stage as the leering General St. Pé in Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, and on Broadway as Thomas Wolfe's father in Look Homeward, Angel. Last year, doing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle in London, he nearly deprived the world of his future services when, during the hanging scene, he slipped...