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Jun 19, 2024 · For decades, A Man for All Seasons has been considered one of the greatest Catholic films of all time. After all, here was a prestigious Hollywood film, a Best Picture winner no less, focusing on a Catholic saint, Thomas More.
Jun 18, 2024 · At the weekend, I watched A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann and scripted by Robert Bolt from his stage play, it won the Academy Award for Best Picture and an Oscar for Paul Scofield, who starred as Sir Thomas More.
Jun 15, 2024 · Historical drama. Multi-award-winning historical drama about Sir Thomas More's refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church. More suffers a crisis of conscience, questioning the sovereign's plans for divorce, and ultimately pays for his disapproval with his life.
Jun 26, 2024 · In the 1966 film about Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons, when his daughter Margaret visits him in prison, she tries to persuade him to swear by the act publicly while denying it in his heart, so that he may be reunited with his family again, Thomas says:
Jun 11, 2024 · A Man for All Seasons (1966) Would you be willing to lay down your own life and stand up for your convictions in the face of evil and corruption? That is the intriguing conceit at the core of Fred Zinneman’s 1966 period drama based on a stage play by Robert Bolt.
On St. Thomas More’s Day, giving a shoutout to the film “A Man for All Seasons” starring Paul Scofield and Robert Shaw. Won the 1966 Academy Award for Best Picture.
2 days ago · Robert Bolt explains that the Thomas More of ‘A Man for All Seasons’ appealed as a dramatic subject because he was possessed of “an adamantine sense of his own self.” [2] and that, while More was someone with a well documented love of life, in the pressure to take the Oath of Allegiance he “found something in himself without which life was valueless..”
