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Certificate U

Cast Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller Leo McKern Robert Shaw Orson Welles

Directors Fred Zinnemann

Screenwriters Constance Willis Robert Bolt

Running Time 120 minutes

A Man For All Seasons
For King, country, Pope and faith: Robert Bolt's screenplay moves to the big screen with all its baggage intact.

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Plot
Adapted from Robert Bolt's play (by Bolt himself), this is the tale of Sir Thomas More (Scofield), the Catholic statesman who opposed King Henry VIII's (Shaw) self-appointment as Spiritual Leader of the Church of England, all because the Pope wouldn't grant his wife an annulment. More protests, Henry loses his rag, the rest is history...

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