The Lion in Winter

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Director Anthony Harvey goes for outdoor grandeur, introducing the jailed queen Eleanor Of Acquitaine (Katharine Hepburn), greeted by her husband King Henry II (Peter O’Toole), his mistress (Jane Merrow) and her sons (Nigel Terry, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle), in The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Opening scene, King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and his son John (Nigel Terry) with broadswords, Princess Alais (Jane Merrow) singing, then helping frame the story for The Lion In Winter, 1968, from James Goldman's play and screenplay.

French king Philip (Timothy Dalton) receives the feuding English princes Geoffrey (John Castle), John (Nigel Terry) and Richard (Anthony Hopkins) as they fight for the crown in The Lion In Winter, 1968, from James Goldman's play and screenplay.

Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), freed from prison by her husband for Christmas, makes a desperate land-for-liberty deal with King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) in The Lion In Winter, 1968.

King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) jousts with young king Philip (Timothy Dalton) of France, and his sons (Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry, John Castle), Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn) commenting, early in The Lion In Winter, 1968.