A Man For All Seasons: Special Edition

Look for Vanessa Redgrave in the nonspeaking role of Anne Boleyn. She played the part just for fun and refused to accept any money for it.

Winner of six Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Scofield) and Best Director (Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma!, From Here to Eternity), this cinema classic returns on DVD. In 16th-century England, King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw, Jaws, The Sting) broke with the Roman Catholic Church by divorcing Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield, Anna Karenina, Hamlet), the Lord Chancellor of England, held fast to his principles and refused to sanction the king’s defi ance of the Vatican. This historically profound battle of ideals also involved Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Moby Dick), Thomas Cromwell (Leo McKern, Rumpole of the Bailey, A Tale of Two Cities) and More’s valiant wife (Dame Wendy Hiller, Byron, I Know Where I’m Going!). While the king punished the treasonous with execution, there was no telling More’s fate. Includes the featurette The Life of Sir Thomas More.