Becket

Handsome and literate adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play about Henry II's love/hate relationship with Thomas Becket, his closest friend who the king impetuously appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. It was a move that Becket begged him not to do and one that Henry came to deeply regret. Burton and O'Toole give monumental performances. The film that legendary producer Hal Wallis (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Casablanca) once said he wanted to be remembered for making.