{"id":37920,"date":"2013-06-27T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-becket-1964.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:16:24","slug":"movie-review-becket-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-becket-1964.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Becket" (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Not quite sure how I missed this movie in the past, but glad I caught up to it in the present. \u00a0Burton's great, but O'Toole is fantastic (complete with a cameo by his then-wife Sian Phillips). \u00a0Ironically, he played Henry II in "The Lion in Winter," too.<\/p>\n

Great film, despite being riddled with historical inaccuracies.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Becket (1964)<\/a>
\n This is a remarkable film, in politics, production and cast, telling the tale of Thomas Becket, comrade, advisor, beloved friend, and ultimately ecclesiastical adversary of King Henry II. Richard Burton … Peter O’Toole … John Gielgud … even a bit part for Sian Phillips, O’Toole’s wife at the time — it’s a remarkable cast, all of them are excellent, alongside a marvelous script based on the Anouilh play (albeit with a number of historical e…\n <\/p>\n

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Not quite sure how I missed this movie in the past, but glad I caught up to it in the present. \u00a0Burton's great, but O'Toole is fantastic (complete with a cameo by his then-wife Sian Phillips). \u00a0Ironically, he played Henry II in "The Lion in Winter," too. Great film, despite being riddled with historical inaccuracies. … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Becket" (1964)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,108,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-history","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160331,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/movie-review-barbie-2023.html","url_meta":{"origin":37920,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Barbie” (2023)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jan-24 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Who'd think that a movie about a kid's toy would be one of the most human films of the year?","rel":"","context":"In "Movies"","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"Barbie movie poster","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Barbie-movie-poster-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Barbie-movie-poster-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Barbie-movie-poster-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Barbie-movie-poster-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/movie-makeup.html","url_meta":{"origin":37920,"position":1},"title":"Movie Makeup","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-May-17 1:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting (if brief) look at movie makeup trends (for women), decade by decade, over the last century. 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