The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:3
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Genre: Religious
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... [More]
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Leo McKern, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Michael Anderson
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Reviews for The Shoes of the Fisherman
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 C+ |
Critics have comically dubbed it Zorba the Pope. Full Review |
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Settle back and let this old fashioned but entirely enjoyable epic (from Aussie writer Morris West's novel) take you on a journey that is in many ways every bit as relevant today as it was then Full Review |
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B- |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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B |
A curious, at times almost prescient anticipation of the reign of John Paul II, filtered partly through the lens of the Silly Sixties. Full Review |
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5/10 |
...it gets so bogged down in subplots and minutiae, it loses its way. Full Review |
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