The Private Life of Henry VIII

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Alexander Korda's look at the reign of England's oft-married monarch stars Charles Laughton as the title character.

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Release Date:	06/29/2017
UPC:	0889290224958
Original Release:	1933
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	27,048

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Performance Credits

Charles Laughton	Henry VIII
Merle Oberon	Anne Boleyn
Binnie Barnes	Katherine Howard
Elsa Lanchester	Anne of Cleves
Robert Donat	Thomas Culpepper
Miles Mander	Wriothesly
Claude Allister	Cornell,Cornell
John Loder	Peynell
Lawrence Hanray	Cranmer
Wendy Barrie	Jane Seymour
Lady Tree	Henry's Old Nurse
Everley Gregg	Catherine Parr
John Turnbull	Hans Holbein
Frederick Culley	Duke of Norfolk
Gibb McLaughlin	French Executioner
Sam Livesey	English Executioner
Franklin Dyall	Thomas Cromwell
Judy Kelly	Lady Rochford
William Heughan	Kingston
William Austin	Duke of Cleves
Kurt Schroeder	Composer

Technical Credits

Alexander Korda	Producer
Ludovico Toeplitz	Producer
Lajos Bir?	Screenwriter
Arthur Wimperis	Screenwriter

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Charles Laughton's Oscar-winning performance as Henry VIII rises above the stuffy limitations of the period piece to give us a portrait as rounded and exuberant as any on film. Laughton is well-supported by fine actresses as his wives, particularly Wendy Barry as the doomed Jane Seymour and Merle Oberon as the dim but delightful Anne Boleyn. Director Alexander Korda is the chief beneficiary of Laughton's larger-than-life performance, as his conservative helmsmanship fails to provide the film with a distinctly personal stamp. However, the sensual gusto in the scenes of Henry's indulgences is enthusiastically presented, and Korda deserves credit for giving us a very human portrait of this controversial figure. The film also benefits from some insidious dialogue by Arthur Wimperis (based on the story by Lajos Biro) that punctures the pomp of the English costume drama with tongue-in-cheek humor. Particularly entertaining are the exchanges between Henry and his prospective and coquettish wives (and mistresses), while some of the minor characters deliver wickedly insightful social criticism directed more at the state of the world's economy in 1933 than at the film's period.

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