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...BECKET. A superior film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's superior drama has a prodigally talented cast headed by Richard Burton as England's 12th century religious martyr and Peter O'Toole as Henry...
...BECKET. Richard Burton as England's 12th century martyr opposes Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in this superbly played, eye-and ear-filling film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's pungent historical drama...
...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...
After shooting a movie in Cambodia, British Actor Peter (Becket) O'Toole reported his typical tourist's reaction: "At 4 a.m., someone bangs on the door to deliver your laundry. 'Bug off,' I'd say, which is evidently Cambodian for 'Come in.' They'd come right ahead, with some paper to sign. Paper, paper, paper, sheaves of it. That's always a sign when a country's about to go to hell. Chits for everything...
...chronicle, Becket distorts history, Saxonizes the Norman Becket, and even turns Henry's formidable mate, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Pamela Brown), into a dull castle frump. As tragedy, it has more dry intelligence than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...