Henry VIII & Cranmer Discuss Anne Boleyn During Her Execution (Henry VIII & His Six Wives, 1972)

[@joeblogs-vx4ep]

He's got the biggest codpiece in the court

[@heliotropezzz333]

I think it was designed to counter rumours that he was impotent.

[@paules3437]

Probably because he played lacrosse....

[@alexkrycek21]

The actor that played Cranmer was really good. I think he also played him in the TV series. In terms of a comparison to his portrait pretty much a dead ringer.

[@MarioLabot]

Later, late Bernard Hepton reprised his role Archbishop Cramer in both the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives and serial Elizabeth R.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

I remember the series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" on PBS here back around 1970 or so. Great series! I had no idea there was a motion picture version done, I'm assuming it wasn't releasd here in the US as I've never heard of it until now.

[@MarioLabot]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 I assumed the motion picture version was released for the UK/EU audience. Keith Michell did reprised his role as Henry VIII for the final time in the 1996 BBC The Prince and the Pauper serial.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@MarioLabot Thanks!

[@maestroclassico5801]

He did. Keith and Bernard were the only actors from the series to repeat their roles in the movie. Trivia: in the movie Donald Pleasance played Cromwell, on the series his daughter Angela played Catherine Howard.

[@robertthomson1587]

For anyone wondering about the Rogation Days: they are three penitential days of prayer on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Thursday. In 1536 Easter Sunday fell on 16 April, and thus Ascension Thursday was on 25 May. The Rogation Days would have been 22, 23, and 24 May. Anne Boleyn was executed on 19 May. Cranmer is reminding the King of the limited time to announce the betrothal if the marriage is to take place after Ascension.

[@graphiquejack]

Very odd scene. It’s partly using Cranmer’s own words from his letter to Henry, but instead of him trying to distance himself from a woman he knows is innocent but is no longer safe to support, it’s as if he’s trying to ease the king’s guilty conscience. A conscience we have no evidence of from the historical record. If Henry needed convincing that she was guilty, and felt any remorse at her execution, he had a funny way of showing it. Also, while Rampling’s Anne is seductive and captivating, it’s also completely one dimensional and far too cruel. At least in the series, which only focuses on her downfall, she’s at least more admirable, complex and fiesty as played by Tutin.

[@randyking3057]

0:15 What are you staring at, Rev. Cramner?

[@randyking3057]

OMG Lose that codpiece, your majesty

[@ivankadump2539]

Why are you looking only at that? 😮

[@RainPrincess1988]

​@@ivankadump2539how can you not look at it 😂

[@maestroclassico5801]

Didnt he turn around and marry Jane literally a day later?

[@beaubrent]

Buncha ego bollocks is what all that was.