Francis of Assisi (1961)
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his… More This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents in and out of battle. St. Francis hears the call to the cloth (in his hagiography, the call was repeated several times before he finally responded completely), and gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. The main focus of attention is then on his relationship to Clare (Dolores Hart) a young aristocratic woman who was so taken with St. Francis that she left her family and became a nun. St. Francis by this time (1212 A.D.) had a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty, and aside from the dubious aspersions cast on his interest in Clare, the drama goes on to note miracles and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Curtiz
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
G,
- In Theaters
- Jul 12, 1961 Wide
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Michael Curtiz, a man who never met a stationary camera he didn't romance.
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Cast
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Bradford Dillman
as Francis Bemardone
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Dolores Hart
as Clare Scefi
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Stuart Whitman
as Paolo
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Pedro Armendáriz
as Sultan
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Cecil Kellaway
as Cardinal Hugolino
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Eduard Franz
as Pietro Bernardino
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Athene Seyler
as Aunt Buona
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Finlay Currie
as Pope Innocent III
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Mervyn Johns
as Brother Juniper
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Russell Napier
as Brother Elias
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Harold Goldblatt
as Bernard
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Edith Sharpe
as Donna Pica Bemardone
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Jack Lambert
as Scefi
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Oliver Johnston
as Father Livoni
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Malcolm Keen
as Bishop Guido
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Evi Marandi
as Saracen Girl
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Manuel Ballard
as Lucia
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Jole Mauro
as Elfrida
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Peter Paul Muller
as Friars
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John Karlsen
as Friars
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Cyrus Elias
as Friars
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Curt Lowens
as Friars
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Walter Maslow
as Friar
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Renzo Cesana
as Friars
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Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
as Cardinal Savelli
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Nicholas Hannen
as Beggar
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John Welsh
as Canon Cattanei
