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Director:
Writers:
Robert Bolt (play)
Robert Bolt (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1967 (Japan) more
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Tagline:
...a motion picture for all times!
Plot:
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 6 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 5 nominations more
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(8 articles)
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powerful and misunderstood study of identity more (125 total)

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Runtime:
120 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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One of only 4 productions to win both the Best Play Tony (1962) and the Best Picture Oscar (1966). The other 3 are My Fair Lady (1957/1964), The Sound of Music (1960/1965) and Amadeus (1981/1984). more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of the film, when Cardinal Wolsey is writing a letter to Thomas More, the sound of the quill marking the paper continues for about a second after Wolsey has stopped writing. more
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Sir Thomas More: I trust I make myself obscure. more
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38 out of 41 people found the following comment useful.
powerful and misunderstood study of identity, 26 February 2004
10/10
Author: Brixia from San Francisco



This is one of my favorite films. It is of perfect length and pacing, and the script is one of the best ever written. The acting, direction, and design of this movie are uniformly excellent. The segue into Henry VIII's entrance is alone reason for seeing the movie. The production design is top-notch, both beautiful and--unlike many "costume dramas"--not so overwhelming as to lose the actors among outrageous sets and costumes. For an adaptation of a stage play, a remarkable proportion of the action taking place outdoors, with More's house at Chelsea being particularly lovely.

It's very easy to see this film superficially as a moral fable, and many people scoff at it as being a stagy morality play. But it's both more subtle and more vibrant that that. The subtlety of Robert Bolt's script lies in its exploration of identity. We're not meant to identify or admire More's religious ideas, which the movie actually tiptoes around. Instead it's what Bolt called More's "adamantine sense of his own self" that the movie really highlights.

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