A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Rev. Gene Phillips Letters, 1970-2004
PAGE 6-7: Letter from Fred Zinnemann to Rev. Gene Phillips, Aug. 30, 1971.
Zinnemann continues a conversation he and Phillips had evidently had in-person about a script and/or a biographic work. Zinnemann provides comments and mentions the films The Nun’s Story (1950), From Here to Eternity (1953), High Noon (1952), Man for All Seasons (1966), and The Sundowners (1960).
PAGE 57: Letter from Fred Zinnemann to Rev. Gene Phillips, Feb. 9, 1996.
Zinnemann thanks Phillips for sending him a photocopy regarding A Man for All Seasons (1966), stating that he is “of course unable to arrive at an opinion of [his] own.” Zinnemann then mentions that a “youngish” film historian, Adrian Turner, visited him about a biography about Robert Bolt, and asked about A Man for All Seasons. Zinnemann apologizes for not getting approval from Phillips about a chapter but sent it to Turner since it was already published.