With an hour cut out of it, this might have been a landmark picture.
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10/23/07
The Cardinal (1963)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing... [More]
Starring: Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, John Saxon, Dorothy Gish
Director: Otto Preminger
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Reviews for The Cardinal
1 - 11 (sorted by fresh rating)
A compulsively watchable if distorted history lesson
05/24/03
This is an extremely well constructed film, made with a balance that keeps its overflowing plot line in perfect control.
10/23/07
Top CriticNo review available.
06/15/05
Implausible epic telling of Tom Tryon as courageous priest has great Moross score.
06/08/05
Risible script based on a doorstop novel by Henry Morton Robinson, but handled by Preminger with tremendous panache; worth seeing just for the incredible skill and flair with which he stages the action and moves the camera.
06/24/06
he end is a great letdown from what Mr. Preminger might have accomplished with the 1950 novel of Henry Morton Robinson. There is no strong flow of spirit through it. Even the melodrama is perfunctory and weak.
05/09/05
It's nothing more than a kitsch take on the good and bad of the Catholic Church, but it has the chutzpah to pose as a work of art.
01/08/08
No review available.
04/15/04
I lasted a little over halfway through before figuring that it wasn't going to get any better...
07/15/03
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