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Classic movie: The Lion in Winter This is it, folks. As far as I am concerned, this is the Holy Grail of acting performances + scintillating and scathing dialogue. Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Oh, and Anthony Hopkins in his debut. We are not worthy. As far as a battle of wills, wits, words and ruthless action, King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine have no peer, and had been after each other’s jugulars long before the MGM Lion makes his opening roar. Eleanor and Richard had once loved one another, but they loved territory and power more, and the King was more powerful than his Queen. He had had enough of her ambition, so he had exiled her for treason, ten years prior.The one-liners and zingers in the dialogue are almost unfair they are such archery, and so, so delicious.