Release Date: Jul 12, 1961 Wide
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents in and out of battle. St. Francis hears the call to the cloth (in his hagiography, the call was repeated several times before he finally responded completely), and gives up all his worldly goods to
Jul 12, 1961 Wide
Feb 22, 2005
20th Century Fox Pictures
All Critics (1) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (1)
Michael Curtiz, a man who never met a stationary camera he didn't romance.
Good film if you are only expecting to know the life of this great saint that wanted to live and predict like Jesus Christ did. The movie is far from being a tryumph because most of the performances are weak and most of the actors were miscasted. Pedro Armendariz played a good sultan but the make-up was exaggerated and
July 23, 2008
Lavish production, but the sets look phony and the costumes aren't believable. Good cinematography. Decent acting. A handsome film, but not very convincing. Bradford Dillman is appropriately saintly. Michael Curtiz's able direction is a plus for the movie.
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