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Becket
- Title
- Becket [videorecording] / Paramount ; produced by Hal B.Wallis.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1964.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 1128 B | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (145 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This adaptation of the Anouilh play, set in 12th-century England and concerning the separation of church and state, charts the stormy relationship of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas á Becket, and King Henry II. When Henry confers the bishopric on Thomas, the king's former chancellor and wenching companion experiences a reformation of the spirit and dedicates himself to the service of God. The king is infuriated by the ecclesiastical devotion of his former friend and resolves to eliminate him, a decision that culminates in the dramatic assassination scene in the cathedral.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Note
- Based on the play by Jean Anouilh.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Peter Glenville; screenplay, Edward Anhalt; photography, Geoffrey Unsworth.
- Performer (note)
- Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown.
- Title
- Becket [videorecording] / Paramount ; produced by Hal B.Wallis.
- Imprint
- Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1964.
- Credits
- Director, Peter Glenville; screenplay, Edward Anhalt; photography, Geoffrey Unsworth.
- Cast
- Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown.
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- Added Author
- Wallis, Hal B., 1899-1986.Glenville, Peter, 1913-1996, film director.Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Becket.O'Toole, Peter, 1932-2013, actor.Burton, Richard, 1925-1984, actor.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1128 B