Gone with the Pope (2010)
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LOS ANGELES - Grindhouse Releasing is proud to announce that Duke Mitchell's long-lost 1970s crime saga GONE WITH THE POPE will be shown on screens across the country following the film's successful world premiere in Hollywood. A renowned nightclub entertainer, singer and movie actor known… More LOS ANGELES - Grindhouse Releasing is proud to announce that Duke Mitchell's long-lost 1970s crime saga GONE WITH THE POPE will be shown on screens across the country following the film's successful world premiere in Hollywood. A renowned nightclub entertainer, singer and movie actor known as "Mr. Palm Springs," Mitchell directs and stars in GONE WITH THE POPE as an ex-con who hatches a plan to kidnap the Pope in exchange for the ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world." The movie has been described as "the holy grail for lovers of B-movies" and "a true gem from the American underground." GONE WITH THE POPE was shot in 1975 but remained unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981. The film reels sat in his son's garage until Grindhouse Releasing owners Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski offered to take a shot at piecing the movie together. Murawski took charge of the restoration and spent 15 years giving Mitchell's low-budget movie an A-list treatment in between editing Sam Raimi's SPIDER MAN 1, 2 & 3, DRAG ME TO HELL, and THE HURT LOCKER. Murawski and wife/partner Chris Innis won Best Film Editing Oscars for their work on THE HURT LOCKER the same week that GONE WITH THE POPE premiered at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. --© Official Site
- Directed By
- Duke Mitchell
- Written By
- Duke Mitchell
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 4, 2010 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Karina Longworth, Village Voice
It's gloriously, hilariously offensive, including all manner of racist and sexist jokes and one sequence of WTF? grotesquerie worthy of John Waters.
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Jeff Meyers, Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
..in the pantheon of "bat-shit crazy WTF cinema," Gone with the Pope ranks with the best of the worst.
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Thomas Caldwell, Cinema Autopsy
It functions as a weird time capsule and it does possess an independent spirit that is admirable at times while horribly misguided at others.
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Cast
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Duke Mitchell
as Paul
- Bill Boyd
- John Bruno
- Carl Cocomo
