A Man For All Seasons (1966)
A Man For All Seasons (1966)
A pretty good film about a man who sticks to his principles when everyone else has abandoned theirs for convenience power wealth and/or the status quo. Does the audience for this film exist today (would anyone "get it"?). The film its lead actor (Paul Scofield) its director (Fred Zinnemann From Here to Eternity (1953)) Ted Moore’s Color Cinematography (his only nomination) its Color Costume Design and the Adapted Screenplay Writing by Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago (1965)) all won Academy Awards. Supporting players Robert Shaw and Wendy Hiller were Oscar nominated.
Scofield plays Sir Thomas More (the title character) who is asked by King Henry VIII (Shaw) to approve his divorce of Catherine so that he might marry Ann Boleyn (Vanessa Redgrave). More refuses his king which ultimately leads to his undoing. Hiller plays More’s wife Alice Susannah York his daughter Margaret. Orson Welles plays Cardinal Wolsey Leo McKern plays Thomas Cromwell Nigel Davenport plays the Duke of Norfolk and John Hurt plays Richard Rich.
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