He did a magnificent job.

Thank you!

"He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Rome, Alexandria or Camelot has there been such a queen."

The same goes for the real Henry and Eleanor. They may be dead, but they have in a sense never died.

@@AethelredTheReady yeah I always loved this ending scene. It's very beautiful and poignant. They were both great actors. And now they are only in our memories. Acting at it's best!😀👍

@@AethelredTheReady I like what you say it’s true

Can't help but love them. Not even time could defeat them.

Such an insulting and reductive remark!! How in God’s name do you even _think_ that with such conviction, let alone say it out loud, or write it?? Were you in Hepburn’s head when she made this film, or did she speak to you from the dead?? Such silly, unthinking presumption! Do you think she was such a crap actress, after her long and brilliant career, that she had to go out of character and think about Tracy in order to cry?? That shows what little you understand about the art!!

@@voraciousreader3341 She/He doesn't mean Insult!

​@@voraciousreader3341in Guess whos Coming to Dinner during Spencer Tracys speech she genuinely became emotional because she knew he was gravely ill

Agree totally with @karllieck9064. One of the greatest movies of all time. Every actor, every scene, music……I see nothing wrong if Katherine’s crying here (for the scene) would bring her back to the grief and loss of Spencer Tracy. ❤️🐈

​@@voraciousreader3341I am an artist you wretched bitch. Get back on your meds, Mary. Lo!

I agree. It is my favourite movie.

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE LINES ...

It's not a dessert; it is a feast.

If you liked this movie then you must watch Peter O'Toole in the movie Becket with Richard Burton. An even better performance in my opinion.

@@jephrokimbo9050 I agree with you 100%. For seven years now I've been on the hunt for both those great works on DVD.

@@alonenjersey yes, but for me it has been even longer since i first watched Beckett in High School on a 35mm film projector. have only seen it on a dvd once and did not buy it at the time. the same with the lion in winter except it was while in college. funny fate of these movies with Peter O Toole.

@@jephrokimbo9050 My senses were not blessed the movie Beckett until circa 1996. I was 32 at the time.

@@alonenjersey interesting! i was 17 when i first watched it and was intrigued as well as fascinated. i had seen Peter O Toole and Richard Burton in other roles and nominally was impressed with their abilities to portray a fictitious character and even more intrigued of them as portraying historical figures from the past. pointedly, always remember that this was SCRIPTED and as such many of the events are probably fictitious but there was a REAL King Henry II and a real Thomas Beckett who lived nearly a thousand years ago in merry ole england, the home of my ancestors from warwickshire, nottinghamshire and gloucester. Peace!

me too!

My dad did the sound mixing on this movie

bullshit

Breaks my heart that you are right... even if I won the lottery & spent the money myself to make it, nobody would share my love for it.. 😥😥😥

I agree. Grand, historical movies like this just wouldn't be appreciated now. Plus, most of the great actors are gone now.

'You think there's any chance of it? Hahahahaha'

And half the nobles would be black...or trans (Though Richard was likely gay)

This version, that is.

@@vbrotherit I agree saw the version with Glenn Close and having already seen the original it was ok but couldn't compare in any aspect the cinema photography lighting sound and everything else! Its like comparing Vinyl to digital MP3 NO COMPARISON!!

my fav movie ever. Chock full of great one liners. Excellent dialogue

Becket?

I watched that today and it hit me hard. Being 47, being in a relationship for 23 years, 2 children one bout of breast cancer and going through early menopause - he may still be here, but we will never get it back. 😪

@@cathdodd5072 "We are both alive......and for all I know, that is what hope is." ...... King Henry

@@TheAmerican1963 thank you Kurt 🥰

@@cathdodd5072 You are welcome, Sweetheart.....you are in my prayers....... and I mean that, truly...... :-)

Kphuu

Robertson's then wife bought him the Oscar. I agree, one of the greatest Oscar sins of all time with O'Toole not winning for this film.

I don't understand, they've had joint winners before.

​@@leftcoaster67 But unfortunately, not O'Toole. What splendid momentum if he won his Best Actor statuette, along with Kate, who garnered hers in 1969 :'-(

Don't forget "The Philadelphia Story"....

In some ways, you can see this as her best comedy. In parts it's as laugh-out-loud funny as any of her others. It just has so much more going on as well.

Oh Gee. I never thought of that. It may be. She loved Spencer from tge bottom of her heart. And this film came about a year after Spencer's death.

Neither was Peter.

@@roberthill1166 Actually, if you've seen any interviews with him, he once referred to himself as a "retired" Christian, and said he read the King James Bible everyday, kept it on his nightstand, "for the language."

I dont think you know what ironic means which is very moronic of you

@Nenethegreat W She aged better than any of the other actresses of her generation with the possible exception of Marlene Dietrich

@@Tytytytyty1776 Even if you are correct, why does that make the writer 'moronic'? Have many friends, do you?

@@julianmarsh1378 If i have to explain it to you, then you're even more moronic than the writer. SORRY, let me explain it in terms you can understand: "YOU NO SMART."

She was 61? She was simply gorgeous!

Not really because Richard was killed by a boy and then John became King and ruined everything.

@@WesCoastPiano Let's face it, Richard did a great deal of the screwing things up John got blamed for.

@@althesmith I don't deny that

But who would play Eleanor?

@@rogueriderhood1862 helen mirren is the only one i can think of who could carry it off now that diana rigg has passed- it would take someone with helen’s acting chops to do this role

@@overcomerbtbojesus Good choice, I can't think of anyone else who could do it.

@@rogueriderhood1862 When she's 61, I think Rosamund Pike would be a phenomenal Eleanor.

Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close re-made this film in 2003 and although I will always love and prefer this original, they did not do a half bad job. It's the dialogue you see - in a class of it's own.

Blew that line. “I hope we never die.” “You think there’s any chance of it?”

@@bardwheelo they’re still alive on film & the Internet! Great lines!

@@cynthiaennis3107 Henry II was one of the best kings of England. And Peter O'Toole was a marvel.

I still want to know did they give him a little makeup to add to the wrinkles. He even adjust his walk, to portray a character 14 years old. Because he was absolutely brilliant.

That's NOT a happy ending that's a heartbreaking ending. Apparently you didn't understand it.

That's definitely not an upbeat ending. They both still love each other but they are so hurt that they can only ever engage through competition. That "jungle animals in the dark" was not only about despair but about admiting they failed in being happy together not because they don't love each other, but because the wild, hungry and everconsuming nature each loves in the other leads them to destroy that which they love. So, when they rise and she lives, they are both accepting their part in the game of politics again, because taunting and fighting each other is all they have left. Alisse will never understand that and Richard will never value that in his mother, so they are locked, as a previous scene said "tusk to tusk to eternity". The ending postulates that neither can be complete without the other, so this cycle of coups and offenses that hurts everyone around them is all they can share and all that gives their lives meaning anymore. It is a bleak ending, but they are tough, rough and old enough to soldier on through it. It reminds me of Agatha Christie's Crale couple from "Five Little Pigs". Everyone else thinks they hate each other while they are actually very much in love, but in a very unhealthy way.

What you're suggesting is ACTUALLY what a Hollywood ending would be: We're so mean and now look, we're miserable! Suffering for your sins is the oldest Hollywood trope. This film is showing us two adversaries worthy of each other... warriors who love and hate each other in equal measure... people who enjoy the fight almost as much as winning. They'll cry a few tears in the night and wake up the next day raring for another battle.

The part Heston wanted more than any other was Thomas More in Man for all seasons. Paul Scofield gave the performance of a lifetime in that film.

It's like Alexandre Dumas. It's not history as it happened but maybe should have happened.

Eve the movie is very inaccurate but the personalities and dynamics are pretty accurate

still an excellent piece of cinema

We're seeing the same with movies & shows like The Favourite and The Great - very alternative history, purely for dramatic enjoyment

Regardless, its still an excellent portrayal of their relationship. Perhaps things didn't happen the same way in real life, and that doesn't make it any less romantic, yet it's still possible to feel a connection to the people through Hepburn and O'Toole.

For the same reason they aren't speaking Latin in Quo Vadis, or Hebrew in David and Bathsheba or Greek in Alexander the Great.

@@lray1948 8 months later you have me laughing