![]() ![]() But, Henry has not been able to appoint an heir yet, and what's more, the girl's become his mistress. ![]() ![]() He wants to know when his sister will be married to the heir to the throne. Henry calls a Christmas court, letting his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine ( Katharine Hepburn) out of prison for the occasion. He has three sons: John, his favorite, a sniveling slack-jaw Richard, the soldier genius and Geoffrey, reserved and quiet. Henry II ( Peter O'Toole) is 50 years old and wants to choose his heir before he dies. The action is mostly contained within one day, a Christmas Eve. They look real, and inhabit a world that looks lived in. We believe in the complicated intrigue these people get themselves into because we believe in them. In this England, 250 years earlier than the time of Thomas More, there are dogs and dirt floors, rough furskins and pots of stew, pigs, mud, dungeons-and human beings. That's not the case with "The Lion in Winter." Henry II rules a world in which kings still kicked aside chickens on their way through the courtyard, and he wears a costume that looks designed to be put on in November and shed layer by layer during April. ![]()
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