A plot is according to verity story of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England, who refuses to endorse or even denounce a king's wish to divorce his aging wife so that he can marry his mistress. A King is Henry VIII of England and his wife is Catherine of Aragon, the foremost of an eventual sise.

A play portrays Thomas more as a human of principle, envied by challenger like Thomas Cromwell & loved by the folks and by his personal.

Paul Scofield, who played a leading role in the West End, reprised it on Broadway in 1962, winning a Tony Award, and played Further once more in the 1st of ii film versions (1966), winning an Oscar in the process. A film too stars Robert Shaw as Henry VIII, Orson Welles as Wolsey, a immature John Hurt as More's nemesis Richard Rich, and an older Wendy Hiller as More's 2nd married woman. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann. Additionally to the Best Actor Oscar won by Scofield, the film won Academy Awards for screenplay, cinematography, costume design, Best Director, and Best Picture.

A 1988 remake stars Charlton Heston (who likewise directed it) when Sir thomas more, Vanessa Redgrave (who appeared briefly in the 1966 version as Anne Boleyn) as Additional's married woman, & Sir John Gielgud as Cardinal Wolsey.

Quotation

Sir thomas more: No law against that.

Roper: There exists! God's law!

Thomas more: So God may arrest him.

Roper: Sophistication upon sophistication.

Thomas more: There is no, sheer simplicity. A law, Roper, a law. I personally understand what's legal non what's correct. & I personally'll stick to what's legal.

Roper: So wise shoppers placed human's law above God's!

Sir thomas more: There are no, far beneath; however let pine tree state draw your computers attention to the fact - We'm non God. A currents & eddies of correct & wrong, which that you buy such plain sailing, I personally could't navigate. I personally'1000 there is no voyager. However in the coppice of the law, buckeye state, there I personally'm the forester. We doubt whenever there's the human alive world health organization can watch pine tree state there, thank God....

Alice: When we talk, he's never again!

Sir thomas more: & last he should, in case he was a Devil himself, until he broke a law!

Roper: And then currently busy people'd give a Devil advantage of law!

Thomas more: Yes. What would you wash? Cut a great road through a law for when the Devil?

Roper: I personally'd cut down each law around England to run that!

Sir thomas more: Oh? & once a endure law was down, & a Devil turned spherical in wise shoppers - in which would you hide, Roper, a laws completely existence flat? This united states's planted heavy by having laws from either coast to coast - human's laws, non God's - & if your family cut the babies down - & you're just the human to get it on - d'that that you really believe you can have upright in the winds that would blow so? Yes, I personally'd give a Devil advantage of law, for our have safety's sake.