Becket (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 25, 2008
- 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:
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Rating: 4.5/5 --
Becket is a terrific example of the historical play or novel turned into a cinematic drama crackling with whip-smart dialogue. I imagine actors must go mad with delight when they read a script that has page after page of dialogue this good.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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
Rating: 4/4 --
The material remains relevant, and the film as a whole is completely engrossing. (It may be nearly 2 1/2 hours long, but it doesn't feel like it.)
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: C+ --
The respectable but boring film is nevertheless worth watching for the robust performances of Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
it finds what's compelling about that history and, more importantly, what's compelling about the people in that history. And, just to be on the safe side, it throws in two of the greatest actors of the day.
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Filmcritic.com
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
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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