A Man for All Seasons
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Sep 26, 2026
Dan ColónHOST
The 50s were pretty kind to him.
Dan ColónHOST
He landed many prominent roles in films like A Night to Remember, Cleopatra, and A Man for All Seasons.
Dan ColónHOST
And through the 60s and 70s, he was in a number of Hammer productions, including Dracula, Prince of Darkness, and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, where he replaced Peter Cushing.
Dan ColónHOST
But his most prominent role was that of Professor Bernard Quatermass in 1967's Quatermass in the Pit, and again in a 96 BBC radio serial, The Quatermass Memoirs.
Matt McManusGUEST
And I find it really refreshing in that way.
Douglas LainHOST
Have you seen the movie A Man for All Seasons?
Matt McManusGUEST
I have.
Matt McManusGUEST
The Robert Bolt one? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Douglas LainHOST
The actor did a good job of realizing him.
Douglas LainHOST
I
Matt McManusGUEST
should also say, Robert Bolt, the author of A Man for All Seasons, went on to write Lawrence of Olivier.
Matt McManusGUEST
So he really had a knack for these kind of period pieces.
Conan NeutronHOST
all things it was nominated for, it did not win Best Picture, which is insane.
Conan NeutronHOST
Because you think about what history remembers well and history does not remember well, right? And the 39th Academy Awards, it was a man for all seasons, which is like this stodgy historical drama.
Conan NeutronHOST
It's
Forrest MillerHOST
fine.
Forrest MillerHOST
It's like, well, the plays already been praised enough for the I don't know what it was.
Forrest MillerHOST
It was it
Conan NeutronHOST
was it was a man for all seasons year
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is what it was.
Scott MasonHOST
So Frank, let's talk about everything that went into making this movie to begin with before we get into the nuts and bolts of the plot.
Scott MasonHOST
Producer David Puttnam was looking for a story in the mold of A Man for All Seasons regarding someone who follows his conscience and felt that sport provided clear situations in this sense.
Scott MasonHOST
He discovered Eric Liddell's story by accident in 1977 when he happened upon An Approved History of the Olympic Games, a reference book on the Olympics, while he was home with the flu in a rented house in Malibu.
Scott MasonHOST
Screenwriter Colin Welland, commissioned by Puttnam, did an enormous amount of research for his Academy Award-winning script.
Sheldon HallHOST
partly a Brechtian figure, so breaking the fourth wall, distancing the audience from the fiction.
Sheldon HallHOST
And the example that Melanie gives is a contrast, which also occurred to me as I was watching it, is the figure of the common man in the original stage production of A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt.
Sheldon HallHOST
which was completely rewritten in the 1966 film, but also was kind of restored in the 1986-88 TV movie.
Sheldon HallHOST
And that figure is meant to be a kind of both a link for the audience and also a way of saying, this is not real.
Rob LiefeldHOST
Yeah.
Jeph LoebGUEST
Um, I think he was much more geared towards X-Man, which is why that was so successful.
Jeph LoebGUEST
Um, but I think Cable took off at that point.
Jeph LoebGUEST
A, it had a huge boost from Age of Apocalypse, but B, i- th- i- Ian really brought to the page something that-
Jason McLeodHOST
suck.
Jason McLeodHOST
A Man for All Seasons, one of your favorites.
Jason McLeodHOST
Oh, we did like that movie a lot.
Jason McLeodHOST
That was number two on my British
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
The answer is...
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
A Man for All Seasons.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
We've talked about that on one of the movie shows.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
He played Sir Thomas More, friend of Erasmus, and, uh...
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Fascinating character.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
A Man for All Seasons, interesting, that is a, the term A Man for All Seasons was initially not a, like, oh, a guy who could do everything, a kind of Renaissance man.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
It was actually someone who was duplicitous, someone who would change, right? And Moore is, in a way, I mean, yeah, interesting.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
All right, 15, on a similar tip, Burt Lancaster, won Best Actor for his role in the titular character of this movie.
Albert FinneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All the rest is propaganda.
Ray WinstoneGUEST
All of a sudden, I wasn't just watching, uh, A Man For All Seasons, which is wonderful writing, but I was watching films about us, what we're about in a way, you know.
Ray WinstoneGUEST
I think somewhere in the back of me thought, "You know, I, I could do that."
John WilsonHOST
Were you looking particularly at the actors, at the leading men, and because you could identify with-
LiamHOST
That was a good name, wasn't it? You know, when you just think...
LiamHOST
ah yeah that's a boss name so obviously you're known from the writer director of citizen kane again he's also the director of magnificent ambersons he pops up in a man for all seasons which 1966 was one of my favorite films i would like to do that at some point go back and watch that And of course, call back to one of our old previous podcasts, Your Voice is Unicorn, in Transformers, the animated movie.
LiamHOST
The only Transformers movie worth watching.
LiamHOST
Maybe apart from Bumblebee, but we've already mentioned that in a previous podcast.
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