A Man for all Seasons

TCM 11.00am - 1.25pm ★★★★

Satellite historical⊲ As Sir Thomas More, a masterful Paul Scofield stands by his principles and faces up to the consequences of opposing the will of King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw). Fred Zinnemann’s definitive screen version of Robert Bolt’s play won six Oscars. Apart from Scofield, key contributions are made by Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey, Leo Mckern as Thomas Cromwell, John Hurt as the treacherous Richard Rich and Vanessa

Redgrave as Anne

Boleyn. Dir: Fred Zinnemann 1966, U, 145min