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Release Date:
12 December 1963 (USA) morePlot:
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations moreUser Comments:
Maybe they should remake this one moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tom Tryon | ... | Stephen Fermoyle | |
| Carol Lynley | ... | Mona Fermoyle / Regina Fermoyle | |
| Dorothy Gish | ... | Celia Fermoyle | |
| Maggie McNamara | ... | Florrie Fermoyle | |
| Bill Hayes | ... | Frank Fermoyle | |
| Cameron Prud'Homme | ... | Din Fermoyle | |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | Monsignor Monaghan | |
| Loring Smith | ... | Cornelius J. Deegan | |
| John Saxon | ... | Benny Rampell | |
| James Hickman | ... | Father Lyons | |
| Berenice Gahm | ... | Mrs. Rampell | |
| John Huston | ... | Cardinal Glennon | |
| Jose Duvall | ... | Ramon Gongaro (as Jose Duval) | |
| Peter MacLean | ... | Father Callahan | |
| Robert Morse | ... | Bobby and His Adora-Belles |
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The Special Edition DVD features the documentary Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991). moreGoofs:
Continuity: When the blood is flowing from the statue's heart and Father Fermoyle addresses the worshiping crowd, the length of the flow on the statue is inconsistent between cuts going from nearly all the way down the statue to being shown at midway down the statue and returning to be all the way down the statue. moreSoundtrack:
Jubilante Alleluja moreFAQ
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I saw this film years ago on television AFTER I had read the excellent book on which it is very loosely based. What a disappointment!.So many integral characters are eliminated,ie, Gaetano Orselli, most of Stephens family, and several of his clergy friends. Although Tom(Thomas) Tryon, Burgess Meredith and John Huston are excellent, there is very little thread to tie them together in this over long film. And will someone please tell me why the character of Ghislana Falerni Orselli was turned into the student temptress for lack of a better term, Anne-Marie. The character only cheapened the film. Even today with the crises in the Roman Catholic church, this film is dated and downright silly. There was so much potential in the book that Preminger chose to ignore for the sake of heaven knows what. Maybe this one should be remade(NOT UPDATED,but using the original source to show how a man of the cloth really should behave.