Francis of Assisi (film)
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Director Michael Curtiz Music director Mario Nascimbene Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama, History Costume design Vittorio Nino Novarese Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 12, 1961 (1961-07-12) Based on The Joyful Beggar Writer Ludwig von Wohl (novel), Eugene Vale (screenplay), James Forsyth (screenplay), Jack W. Thomas (screenplay) Cast Bradford Dillman (Francis Bernardone of Assisi), Dolores Hart (Clare), Stuart Whitman (Count Paolo of Vandria), Cecil Kellaway (Cardinal Hugolino), Eduard Franz (Pietro Bernardone), Athene Seyler (Aunt Buona)Similar movies The Da Vinci Code , Sexual Chronicles of a French Family , Monty Python and the Holy Grail , The Captive , Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying , Young Girls of Wilko Tagline The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Francis of Assisi is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl. It was shot entirely in Italy. The film was a box office loss. It starred Bradford Dillman in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles (he usually played a villainous character onscreen, despite having originated the role of Jamie in the original stage version of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in 1956).
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Two years after the release of Francis of Assisi, Dolores Hart, the 24-year-old actress who plays St. Clare in the film, became a real-life Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
Plot
Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who, according to the film, is so taken with St. Francis that she leaves her family and becomes a nun. By this time (1212 A.D.), St. Francis has a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty. The movie goes on to note miracles (such as the appearance of the stigmata on Francis's hands and feet) and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226. The funeral befitted a man loved by man and beast alike, and ended with the birds he loved doing a flyby.
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References
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