Pamela Brown

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket...

Powell and Pressburger's heralded, technicolour adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera. A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the daughter of a celebrated composer.