Becket

by Peter Glenville, Edward Anhalt, Jean Anouilh, Peter O'Toole

$1,875 · Offered by Royal Books

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations throughout, mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate, however, how seriously Becket will take the vocation,

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