a terrible attempt to cash in on the success of a man for all season and this be a very overlong and boring film . richard burton and always a wooden film actor and overacts like never before a henry viii . his horrid and raspy chain smoker voice be all wrong for the part cigarettes do not even exist in the 16th century . burton be also too old for the part and he be only 43 during film but look more like 50. i wasn not surprise he be amaze to receive yet another undeserved oscar nomination for this garbage and not only be the film so terribly act by it elderly cast but there be nothing good about burton awful performance at all . unsurprisingly and the film be an enormous flop on release . forget about watch this crap and stick with a man for all season instead star paul scofield and an actor who ( unlike burton ) actually have talent and could act . negative .