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 : پادشاه هنری دوم انگلستان با علاقه خود به دوست نزدیک و معتمدش توماس بکت که افتخار واقعی خود را با رعایت اراده الهی به جای پادشاه می یابد، کنار می آید.

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.