Factual error: At the start of the excommunication scene, the monks are chanting Dies Irae, a thirteenth century Catholic poem, but St. Thomas Becket died in 1170, almost a century before the poem was written.
Becket (1964)
Directed by: Peter Glenville
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi
Thomas a Becket: It is here now, the supreme folly, this is its hour.
King Henry II: Will no-one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
King Henry II: Your body, madam, was a desert that duty forced me to wander in alone. But you have never been a wife to me.
