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Francis of Assisi

  • 19611961
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  • 1h 45m
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Francis of Assisi (1961)
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In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the ... Read allIn 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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    • Michael Curtiz
  • Writers
    • Ludwig von Wohl(novel "The Joyful Beggar")
    • Eugene Vale(screenplay)
    • James Forsyth(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bradford Dillman
    • Dolores Hart
    • Stuart Whitman
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Writers
    • Ludwig von Wohl(novel "The Joyful Beggar")
    • Eugene Vale(screenplay)
    • James Forsyth(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bradford Dillman
    • Dolores Hart
    • Stuart Whitman
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    • 28User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Bradford Dillman
    Bradford Dillman
    • Francis Bernardone of Assisi
    Dolores Hart
    Dolores Hart
    • Clare
    Stuart Whitman
    Stuart Whitman
    • Count Paolo of Vandria
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    • Cardinal Hugolino
    Eduard Franz
    Eduard Franz
    • Pietro Bernardone
    Athene Seyler
    Athene Seyler
    • Aunt Buona
    Finlay Currie
    Finlay Currie
    • The Pope
    Mervyn Johns
    Mervyn Johns
    • Brother Juniper
    Russell Napier
    Russell Napier
    • Brother Elias
    John Welsh
    John Welsh
    • Canon Cattanei
    Harold Goldblatt
    • Bernard
    Edith Sharpe
    • Donna Pica
    Jack Lambert
    Jack Lambert
    • Scefi
    Oliver Johnston
    Oliver Johnston
    • Father Livoni
    Malcolm Keen
    Malcolm Keen
    • Bishop Guido
    Pedro Armendáriz
    Pedro Armendáriz
    • The Sultan
    Manuela Ballard
    • Lucia, Tavern Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Renzo Cesana
    Renzo Cesana
    • Friar
    • (uncredited)
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Writers
      • Ludwig von Wohl(novel "The Joyful Beggar")
      • Eugene Vale(screenplay)
      • James Forsyth(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      In the film, Dolores Hart plays an aristocratic woman who becomes a nun. In reality, Hart left Hollywood to become a nun in 1963.
    • Goofs
      Several times in the movie, you can see the Basilica of Saint Francis in the background. It wasn't built before 1230, four year after Saint Francis' death.
    • Quotes

      Francis Bernardone of Assisi: This could be so, a voice told me to rebuild the Lord's house. I thought I had to work with stone and mortar, but perhaps I was wrong.

    • Crazy credits
      [Right before the closing title card] Pax et Bonum ("peace and all good [be with you]"). This Latin phrase is the traditional greeting and goodbye of the Franciscans, and it was established by Francis himself.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Laverne & Shirley: The Road to Burbank (1981)

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    7/10
    The Hollywood varnished version of St. Francis
    This film becomes interesting towards the end when Francis goes to Egypt to meet the sultan, and while he is away his order is completely adjusted to worldly demands. None of the other St. Francis films have dared to bring up this problem. Francis is depicted as the incorrigible idealist who is betrayed by the necessity of pragmatism and political realists.

    Stuart Whitman is perfect as always, he is always an interesting ornament to any film he acts in, while Bradford Dillman makes more of a type than a character. Old Finlay Currie is excellent as the pope, and so is Dolores Hart as Sister Clare, but none of these can match any of the Italian actors in the Italian films, since this film completely misses the Italian mentality and is all Hollywood. This was Michael Curtiz' last film but one, (his last became "Comancheros", better although more muddled,) and his professionalism gives standard polish to the whole film, but it hardly becomes more than a filmed legend, like glossy sugared saintly illustrations spiced with typical Hollywood sentimentality on top of it. Sorry, the true St. Francis is nowhere to be found in this film.

    The only convincing character of some Franciscan credibility is brother Juniper played by Mervyn Johns. He has understood something of the Franciscan mentality, while all the rest is Hollywood, not at its worst but definitely at its most conventional.
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    • Feb 12, 2016

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    • Release date
      • July 12, 1961 (South Africa)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Assisi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Perseus Productions
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 1 hour 45 minutes
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