Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Keith Michell
as Henry VIII
Donald Pleasence
as Thomas Cromwell
Charlotte Rampling
as Anne Boleyn
Jane Asher
as Jane Seymour
Brian Blessed
as Suffolk
Michael Gough
as Norfolk
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
as Catherine Parr
Jenny Bos
as Anne of Cleves
Lynne Frederick
as Catherine Howard
Frances Cuka
as Katherine of Aragon
CinemaSerf
Based on the BBC drama series (and exec produced by a man who went on to run their drama department for a while) this is a good effort at recounting in two hours the lives and loves of Henry VIII over almost 40 years. Donald Pleasance is noteworthy as the odiously ambitious Thomas Cromwell and Charl...