The Ceremony of Innocence

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