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. Richard Kiley stars as King Ethelred with James Broderick, Larry Gates, and Gilmer McCormick. The script was written by Ronald Ribman and the film was directed by Ken Rockefeller and Arthur Allan Seidelman. Bob Markell produced The Ceremony of Innocence.