The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
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Reviews Counted: 5 Fresh: 2 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Synopsis:
Kiril Lakota, a Russian priest, has spent years languishing in a Siberian prison camp for his religious convictions. But he unexpectedly gets a reprieve when the communist government sends him to Rome to help the Vatican prevent a nuclear war. But neither the Soviet hierarchy nor the priest... [More]
Genre: Religious
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Leo McKern, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner
Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: George Englund
Screenwriter: John Patrick, James Kennaway
Composer: Alex North
Producer: George Englund
Screenwriter: John Patrick, James Kennaway
Composer: Alex North
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All-star cast, headed by Anthony Quinn, Olivier and Gielgud, can't help Anderson's poor transfern of Morris West's bestseller, an international political thriller about a Russian survivor of the gulag who becomes pope; best thing is Alex North's score.
08/23/06 02:42 PM
A curious, at times almost prescient anticipation of the reign of John Paul II, filtered partly through the lens of the Silly Sixties.
04/12/06 05:18 PM
...it gets so bogged down in subplots and minutiae, it loses its way.
04/02/06 10:18 PM
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