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I show you the times...
Well acted screen drama with strong overtones for today's world. The need for law as the primary means of protecting all members of society from the ravages of people of power is aptly illustrated in this movie. <
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>While cast nearly half a millenia ago, little has changed other than the means of transportation and the fashions; because people have not changed. Political power, betrayal and corruption are themes as old as time; yet few today understand that adherence to a standard of law is the ONLY practical shield for the common man. <
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>I suggest this movie would make an excellent item of study for all social studies classes as well as law. Further, its timelessness and depth is such that it can be viewed repeatedly even to the point of memorizing its script and still provide more insight with each viewing. <
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>I highly recommend this DVD.

Superb film about an important subject--integrity!
I've just read the last 40 readers' reviews and every one gave this film five stars. I don't think I've seen that for any other film! <
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>The story is true, it is important, it is as relevant to today as it was when it unfolded. It is beautiful, powerfully portrayed, without cinematic excesses that would detract us from the tale. People mentioned the score and I have no memory of hearing music, which I take as a good thing. So often we're manipulated into feeling one way or another by the music but this doesn't do that. I read that the film was made on an amazingly frugal budget but nothing in it is cheap...it's all superb...which is a tribute to Thomas More, a man for whom nothing was cheap. <
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>The cast is first rate. English actors are sooo good. The young beautiful Susanna York comes up with such deep chest tones at times when she is being really serious...very impressive for such a small person. Robert Shaw gave a terrific performance as Henry VIII, here seen as the bon vivant, the man who loves music, composes it himself, extolls on the beauty of the summer night and the white lilac bush and of course, loves the ladies. His affection and admiration for More seem genuine. From his point of view, it's imperative to have a male heir and so he had to do what he had to do. He gives us lots of hearty laughter, which is erie when we consider the actions he took later in the story. Henry is conspicuously out of sight for the final portion of the film, his orders being carried out by his lackeys. <
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>I kept watching for John Hurd and did not recognize him as the evil young Rich until the final credits rolled. He does the job just right, expressing perfectly the callowness of such a type. He makes your flesh creep when you see him in his fancy dress, lying, in the final courtroom scene. More's comment to him, that he gave up his soul....for Wales?...is priceless. <
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>Best of all was Paul Scofield in the performance of a lifetime. I'm so glad he got the Oscar! His Thomas ran the gamut of touchingly tender, with his wife and especially his daughter, to amazing powerful as he almost screams out his final speech in court. Wow! Bring Kleenex. <
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>Some of the information about Thomas More given by other reviewers---that he caused a few heads to roll, himself, over religious principles---makes me realize that this version of the man may well have been over idealized. However I'll leave that discussion for others. As a film, this is indeed superb!