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Name: A Man for All Seasons
Released: 1966-12-11
Cast: Corin Redgrave, Leo McKern, John Hurt, Nigel Davenport, Orson Welles

A Man for All Seasons

G
2h 0m
1966

89%

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Adaptation of Robert Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a Catholic statesman in England who rebelled against Henry VIII's self-proclaimed status as the head of the Church of England and paid for his religious beliefs by having his head exhibited on London Bridge.

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Producer:

Fred Zinnemann

Writer:

Robert Bolt

Cast:

Corin Redgrave, Leo McKern, John Hurt, Nigel Davenport, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: Solid cinematography and enjoyable performances from Paul Scofield and Robert Shaw add a spark to this deliberately paced adaptation of the Robert Bolt play.

Reviews

Awards Daily

Mark Johnson

A Man For All Seasons is another British history lesson...often buttoned up too tightly with overstuffed pageantry and an exhausting air of elitism

In an era of muddled motives and nihilism, Sir Thomas satisfies our nostalgia not only for nobility but also for an age when a man, if he dared risk his head, knew exactly what he was risking it for.

For me the only thing wrong with the film, in fact, is the secret ingredient that it is inoffensively and sweetly boring.

Its translation from stage to screen not only adds a lot of visual beauty but does not mar the drama. And it adds a stronger sense of period.

Fred Zinnemann's fastidious screen version of the play lets us revel in the conflict not of muscle but mind. The hero is that saintly scholar-statesman Sir Thomas More, a part given a rare wit and subtlety by Paul Scofield.

September 8, 2022

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