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21 August 1992 (USA)
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Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies...
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An old-timey sort of film; should have starred Errol Flynn
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Marlon Brando | ... | Tomas de Torquemada | |
| Tom Selleck | ... | King Ferdinand | |
| Georges Corraface | ... | Christopher Columbus (as George Corraface) | |
| Rachel Ward | ... | Queen Isabella | |
| Robert Davi | ... | Martin Pinzon | |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... | Beatriz (as Catherine Zeta Jones) | |
| Oliver Cotton | ... | Harana | |
| Benicio Del Toro | ... | Alvaro Harana (as Benicio del Toro) | |
| Mathieu Carrière | ... | King John (as Mathieu Carriere) | |
| Manuel de Blas | ... | Vicente Pinzon | |
| Glyn Grain | ... | De La Cosa | |
| Peter Guinness | ... | Fra Perez | |
| Nigel Terry | ... | Roldan | |
| Nitzan Sharron | ... | Benjamin | |
| Steven Hartley | ... | Terreros |
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Cristóbal Colón: el descubrimiento (Spain)
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120 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
Germany:12 (f) |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #31900)
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According to "Variety", Marlon Brando was paid $5 million for his cameo as Torquemada. Over 10 years earlier, Brando had set an industry record when producer "Christopher Columbus" producer Ilya Salkind had paid him $3.7 million for 12 days work on Superman (1978) against a percentage of the gross. That deal yielded Brando $14 million, though he had to sue the producer to get it. It was widely suspected that Brando took the role to raise money to pay for the defense of his son 'Christian Brando', who had been indicted on murder charges after shooting his sister Cheyenne's lover 'Dag Drollett".
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Christopher Columbus:
[to the Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor] I recall our blessed Lord said: here is a new commandment I give to you. That you love one another as I loved you. Surely it is not blasphemy to take that message to the shores of Africa or across the ocean sea.
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Version of Christopher Columbus (1949)
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This seems really to be an old-fashioned adventure film, the kind the studios churned out in great numbers in the 1940's. Maybe an Errol Flynn vehicle. That's the way Georges Corraface plays it, and it's okay. Not great, but okay. Marlon Brando totally mailed it in, as he was wont to do in his later years. Tom Selleck is a wonderful actor, but he really couldn't pull it off in this one. Rachel Ward was much more believable as Queen Isabella, regal, with more than a little bit of religious fanaticism. She also played it with minimal make-up, looking very forty-ish, something many actresses of her stature and beauty would have refused. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benicio del Toro put in decent showings, given the limitations of the material. The scriptwriters were probably in a bit of a quandary, since the occasion (500th anniversary) called for a hagiography, but on the other hand, political correctness makes Colon out to be a villain. They tried to split the difference, and it didn't work. But over-all, this film is not as bad as some make it out to be. Oh, and mention must be made of the beauty of Tailinh Forest Flower as the Indian chieftain's daughter. Wow!