Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
Production
Filmed on location in Canterbury Cathedral, centuries of ghosts included free.
Writing
T.S. Eliot's verse drama adapted with stubborn, beautiful fidelity.
Acting
John Groser's Becket: holy, haunted, and slightly insufferable (perfectly).
Director
George Hoellering
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leo McKern (Third Knight) would later become Rumpole of the Bailey—quite the journey from murdering saints to defending them.
Eliot wrote this in 1935 as fascism rose; Becket's defiance of temporal power hit different then, and still does.
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