A Man For All Seasons (1966)

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Starring:

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Genres:

Classics | Drama

Languages:

English | German | Spanish | Italian | French

Reviews:

5 reviews

Released:

Monday, November 26, 2001

A Man For All Seasons: a motion picture for all time! Winner of six Academy Awards - including 1966 Best Picture - 'A Man For All Seasons' stars Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, a respected English statesman whose steadfast refusal to recognise King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn cost him his head. Featuring an all-star supporting cast - Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York and Vanessa Redgrave - and directed by two-time Oscar-winner Fred Zinnemann, Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons is "a picture that inspires admiration, courage and thought." - The New York Times.

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Barry from Kildare, 08 Apr 2008

My first time to watch it and I was enthralled. I think you need to be a bit of a history fan to understand the setting and the time but the dialogue is wonderful and the central theme of a man struggling between religious conscience and patriotic duty is wonderful

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