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: 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
Rating: 4/4 --
Watching Becket is to see a form of stylized, epic moviemaking not practiced today.
Salt Lake Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
The pleasure of these two extravagantly gifted actors at the top of their game -- their diction! their conviction! their beauty! -- is enormous.
Philadelphia Inquirer
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)
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.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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: B+ --
The picture is being re-released in 30 cities around the country before finally appearing on DVD after years of online foment from fans.The DVD is due in May, but try to catch it in theaters first. It's worth it.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 67,098
- UPC: 030306180397
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