خلاصه داستان : کاردینالی به خاطر خیانت دستگیر می‌شود. او به عنوان پادشاه کلیسا و قهرمانی برای مردمش شناخته می‌شود و ....

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

خلاصه داستان : انگلستان، قرن دوازدهم. «هنری دوم» (اوتول) دوستی نزدیکی با مشاور ساکسونی خود، «توماس بکت» (برتن) دارد. پس از چندی «بکت» به مقام صدراعظمی می رسد و به مقام اسقف کنتربری منصوب می شود. اما آرام آرام اختلافات میان دو دوست بالا می گیرد و «هنری» دستور قتل «بکت» را صادر می کند...

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.