The Ceremony of Innocence
Appearance
The Ceremony of Innocence | |
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Directed by | Ken Rockefeller Arthur Allan Seidelman |
Starring | Richard Kiley |
Edited by | Murray Solomon |
Music by | Charles Gross |
Release date | 1970 |
Language | English |
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
- Richard Kiley as Æthelred the Unready
- Ernest Graves as Sweyn Forkbeard
- John Horn as Edmund Ironside
- Elizabeth Hubbard as Emma of Normandy
- James Broderick as Susse
- Larry Gates as Earl of Ken
- Robert Gerringer
- Howard Green" as Thorkil
- David Gwillim
- William Hickey as Abbo
- Jessie Royce Landis as Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar
- Gilmer McCormick as Princess Thulja