Christopher Columbus (1949)
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Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top… More Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top miniatures impersonating the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria (punctuated by rumbles of mutiny--no, not "rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny") Columbus reaches the New World. Though obviously filmed on an extravagant budget (Technicolor was still a rare commodity in 1949), the British Christopher Columbus has less going for it than the 1939 Porky Pig cartoon Christopher Columbus Jr.. Filmgoers stayed away in droves, as they would when the movie industry "rediscovered" Columbus for a brace of disastrous multimillion-dollar films in 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- David MacDonald
- Genres
- Classics, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 12, 1949 Wide
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Cast
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Fredric March
as Christopher Columbus
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Florence Eldridge
as Isabella of Spain
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Francis L. Sullivan
as Francisco de Bobadilla
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Linden Travers
as Beatriz de Peraza
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Kathleen Ryan
as Beatriz
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Nora Swinburne
as Juana de Torres
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Derek Bond
as Diego de Aranas
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Abraham Sofaer
as Luis de Santangel
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James Robertson Justice
as Martin Pinzon
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Dennis Vance
as Francesco Pinzon
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Richard Aherne
as Vincente Pinzon
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Felix Aylmer
as Father Perez
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Francis Lister
as King Ferdinand
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Edward Rigby
as Pedro
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Ronald Adam
as Talavera
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David Cole
as Columbus' Son
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Lynn Evans
as Lope
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Guy le Feuvre
as Admiral
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Stuart Lindsell
as Prior
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Niall MacGinnis
as Juan de la Cosa
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Hugh Pryse
as Almoner
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Ralph Truman
as Captain
