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Il capriccioso e dissoluto Enrico VIII vuole divorziare da Caterina d'Aragona, che non gli ha dato figli, per sposare Anna Bolena, di cui è innamorato. Per strappare l'assenso del papa, pretende l'aiuto di un gentiluomo molto religioso, stimato anche a Roma: sir Thomas More. Ma né gli onori né le minacce portano Moore (che pagherà con la vita) a cedere sul precetto dell'indissolubilità del matrimonio.
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Paul Scofield
Thomas More

Wendy Hiller
Alice More

Leo McKern
Thomas Cromwell

Robert Shaw
King Henry VIII

Orson Welles
Cardinal Wolsey

Susannah York
Margaret More

Nigel Davenport
The Duke of Norfolk

John Hurt
Richard Rich

Corin Redgrave
William Roper (the Younger)

Colin Blakely
Matthew

Cyril Luckham
Archbishop Cranmer

Jack Gwillim
Chief Justice
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