The Ceremony of Innocence
{{short description|1970 film by Arthur Allan Seidelman}}
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| director = Ken Rockefeller
Arthur Allan Seidelman
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| starring = Richard Kiley
| music = Charles Gross
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| editing = Murray Solomon
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| released = {{Film date|1970}}
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| language = English
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}}The Ceremony of Innocence is a 1970 television movie adaptation of the play by the same name which depicts a highly fictionalized account of the events leading up to Sweyn Forkbeard's invasion of England in AD 1013.
The script was written by Ronald Ribman and the film was directed by Ken Rockefeller and Arthur Allan Seidelman.
Cast
(as listed in the program)
- James Broderick as Sussex
- Larry Gates as Kent
- Robert Gerringer as Bishop Aelfhun
- Ernest Graves as King Sweyn
- Howard Green as Thorkill
- John Horn as Prince Edmund
- Elizabeth Hubbard as Queen Emma
- Richard Kiley as King Ethelred
- Jessie Royce Landis as Queen Alfreda
- Michael Lombard as Abbot
- Gilmer McCormick as Thulja
See also
External links
- {{IMDb title|0205808|The Ceremony of Innocence}}
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Category:Films set in the 11th century
Category:Films set in the Viking Age
Category:American films based on actual events
Category:1970s English-language films
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