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* RetroactiveRecognition: An innkeeper is played by Creator/ArnoldRidley, who would later be best known for playing Private Godfrey in ''Series/DadsArmy''.
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** Plus [=Leo McKern=] played a Number 2 in ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' and like in that show, in More's trial he is effectively asking More why he resigned.
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** Averil Machin is played by Creator/YoothaJoyce, who would later be best known for playing Mildred Roper in ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse'' and ''Series/GeorgeAndMildred''.
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** King Henry is also roughly this, though admittedly his one scene is fairly long, followed by another cameo at his wedding to Anne Bolyn.
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** Creator/RobertShaw, as King Henry Henry, is also roughly this, though admittedly his one scene is fairly long, followed by another cameo at his wedding to Anne Bolyn.
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Duke of Norfolk is short a few little gray cells, mostly so that the audience can get some much-needed legal exposition. He says as much himself at one point, admitting that he is "no scholar". This is lampshaded:
-->'''Cromwell:''' Oh, ''well done'', Sir Thomas. I've been trying to make that clear to His Grace for some time!
-->'''Cromwell:''' Oh, ''well done'', Sir Thomas. I've been trying to make that clear to His Grace for some time!
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Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped got cut.
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* FandomRivalry: This work has a bitter rivalry with ''Series/WolfHall''.
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* FandomRivalry: This work has a bitter rivalry with ''Series/WolfHall''.''Series/WolfHall'', among people who have heard of the latter.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** That giving up your personal values makes you give up your individuality is an ever-relevant message, even if it comes off as [[{{Anvilicious}} a bit heavy-handed]].
** Similarly, the idea that rules should be dispensed in order to punish someone who's ObviouslyEvil is a pretty stupid one.
--->'''William Roper''': So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!\\
'''Sir Thomas More''': Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?\\
'''William Roper''': Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!\\
'''Sir Thomas More''': Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat]]? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, [[PragmaticHero for my own safety's sake]]!
** That giving up your personal values makes you give up your individuality is an ever-relevant message, even if it comes off as [[{{Anvilicious}} a bit heavy-handed]].
** Similarly, the idea that rules should be dispensed in order to punish someone who's ObviouslyEvil is a pretty stupid one.
--->'''William Roper''': So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!\\
'''Sir Thomas More''': Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?\\
'''William Roper''': Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!\\
'''Sir Thomas More''': Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat]]? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, [[PragmaticHero for my own safety's sake]]!
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** In the 2006 radio drama Creator/CharlesDance plays Sir Thomas More. He'd played another lawyer a year before -- the AmoralAttorney Tulkinghorn in ''Literature/BleakHouse''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the 1966 film, the role of villianous AmoralAttorney Cromwell is played by [=Leo McKern=], who a few years later would become famous for his role of Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey, a dedicated defense barrister.
** Plus [=Leo McKern=] played a Number 2 in ThePrisoner and like in that show, in More's trial he is effectively asking More why he resigned.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
** In the 1966 film, the role of villianous AmoralAttorney Cromwell is played by [=Leo McKern=], who a few years later would become famous for his role ofSeries/RumpoleOfTheBailey, ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', a dedicated defense barrister.
** Plus [=Leo McKern=] played a Number 2 inThePrisoner ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' and like in that show, in More's trial he is effectively asking More why he resigned.
** In the 1966 film, the role of villianous AmoralAttorney Cromwell is played by [=Leo McKern=], who a few years later would become famous for his role of
** Plus [=Leo McKern=] played a Number 2 in
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** That giving up your personal values makes you give up your individuality is an ever-relevant message, even if it comes off as [[{{Anvilicious}} a bit heavy-handed]].
** That giving up your personal values makes you give up your individuality is an ever-relevant message, even if it comes off as [[{{Anvilicious}} a bit heavy-handed]].
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Duke of Norfolk is short a few little gray cells, mostly so that the audience can get some much-needed legal exposition. He says as much himself at one point, admitting that he is "no scholar".
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** [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]]:
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Duke of Norfolk is short a few little gray cells, mostly so that the audience can get some much-needed legal exposition. He says as much himself at one point, admitting that he is "no scholar".
** [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]]:scholar". This is lampshaded:
** [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]]:
