Christopher Columbus (1949)

Taglines:

The greatest adventure man ever lived!

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Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 December 1949 (Sweden) See more »

Also Known As:

Columbus See more »

Production Co:

Gainsborough Pictures, Sydney Box Productions See more »

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Runtime:

99 min  | West Germany: 105 min  | Finland: 94 min (Finland: video)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

Cyril Cusack was cast in this film but dropped out before filming could began. See more »

Goofs

Factual errors: In the film, Columbus seems to realize that he never landed in India, whereas in real life, he never realized it. He also talks constantly about having found "new worlds", as if he knew that he had discovered America. See more »

Quotes

Father Perez: I see you're a scholar, my son, as well as a traveler.
Christopher Columbus: Certainly a traveler, Father. I've sailed as far north as Iceland, as far south as Guinea, and eastward to the Golden Horn.
Father Perez: But that is to have reached the limits of the World.
Christopher Columbus: Of the known world? Yes, Father, but the actual world... not by a thousand leagues.
Father Perez: How can you say that - never having seen it?
Christopher Columbus: Have you ever seen Heaven or Hell?
Father Perez: We have sound reasons for believing they exist.
Christopher Columbus: I have sound reasons too.
Father Perez: What are they?
Christopher Columbus: The same as yours, Father, and revelations to which I can add cosmography and mathematics.
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Connections

Version of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) See more »