Murder in the Cathedral (1951)

Murder in the Cathedral (1951)

The tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the Eliot play to the screen and, as such, and Eliot a poet, the film deals more with sound and meaning than it does film movement, i.e., static shots with voice overs. It is the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.

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John Groser

Thomas a Becket

Alexander Gauge

King Henry II

Donald Bisset

First Priest

Leo McKern

Third Knight

Michael Aldridge

Second Knight

T. S. Eliot

Voice of Fourth Tempter

Mark Dignam

First Knight

Paul Rogers

Fourth Knight

William Patrick

Archbishop's Knight

Basil Burton

Third Tempter

David Ward

First Tempter

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