Director : Anthony Harvey
Release Date : 30 October 1968 (USA)
Genre : Drama, History
Cast : Peter O’Toole as Henry II, Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine, Anthony Hopkins as Richard, John Castle as Geoffrey, Nigel Terry as John, Timothy Dalton as King Philip of France, Jane Merrow as Alais, Nigel Stock as Capt. William Marshall, Kenneth Ives as Queen Eleanor’s guard, O.Z. Whitehead as Bishop of Durham, Fran Stafford as Lady in Waiting, Ella More as Lady in Waiting, Kenneth Griffith as Strolling player, Henry Woolf as Strolling player, Karol Hagar as Strolling player
Plot : 1183 AD: King Henry II’s three sons everything crave to inherit the throne, nevertheless he won’t attempt to a choice. They also his better half variously blueprint to vigor him.
Run Time : 134 min | UK:137 min (70 mm version)
Country : UK
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Company : AVCO Embassy
Trivia : Although Peter O’Toole plays the father of Anthony Hopkins, John Castle also Nigel Terry, he is exclusively five, seven also thirteen life more responsible than each other respectively. Moreover, O’Toole is twenty-five life Katharine Hepburn’s junior although plays her husband. It should troth noted, however, that there was fairly a hefty phase hole between Henry II also Eleanor of Aquitaine - she was virtually eleven life his senior.
Goofs : Revealing mistakes: When Eleanor lights a torch as in any case as steps slurp the stairs came to pass by a guard, the torch shadow estimate on the sentry and, after, on the problem on the left. It is imagined to engagement the main illuminate got in loves the torch.
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Plot Summary : Christmas 1183–an aging in addition to conniving King Henry II designs a reunion where he hopes to observe his successor. He summons the drawing close individuals because the holiday: his scheming although imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he wants to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, in addition to John), the finalize thing of whom taste the throne; in addition to the immature although cunning King Philip of France (who is further Alais’ brother). With the future of Henry’s domain at stake, all and sundry engages inside their own school of racket in addition to treachery to wager their claim.
Henry the II with Eleanor converge in addition to their three surviving sons at Christmas to establish which of each other should turn out to be the different king following Henry’s death. Originally a the podium play, the demeanor is on the whole inside the speeches the folks make. Each of the sons has several flaw that departments the resolution difficult, save for the spouses taste ran down their lives wrestling for the basis that stance with yet at the conclude can’t likely stop.
In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, along with Geoffrey to meet him along with his prison-bound mate Eleanor at Chinon given that a category Christmas, along side King Philip II of France along with his sis Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is defending Alais at this time marries John since approved time previous besides he requests her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has previously presented the region of Aquitaine to Richard, the effect of this may perhaps trace the exceedingly presenting itself of England. Everyone offer but possibly Alais are masters of double-dealing along with deceit, thence it may well troth an active Yuletide.
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