What is The Lion in Winter / Becket about?

THE LION IN WINTER, 1968, Criterion Pictures, 134 min. Dir. Anthony Harvey. James Goldman adapts his own play about Henry II trying to determine his successor on Christmas Eve. Peter O’Toole plays Henry II for the second time, and Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton round out the cast in their screen debuts. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archives. BECKET, 1964, 148 min. Dir. Peter Glenville. Peter O’Toole’s first turn as Henry II sees the King immersed in a complicated friendship with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). Courtesy of the Academy Film Archives.

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What is The Lion in Winter / Becket about?: THE LION IN WINTER, 1968, Criterion Pictures, 134 min. Dir. Anthony Harvey. James Goldman adapts his own play about Henry II trying to determine his successor on Christmas Eve. Peter O’Toole plays Henry II for the second time, and Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton round out the cast in their screen debuts. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archives.
BECKET, 1964, 148 min. Dir. Peter Glenville. Peter O’Toole’s first turn as Henry II sees the King immersed in a complicated friendship with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). Courtesy of the Academy Film Archives.