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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543148371
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 15963
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1961
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Lavish Bio Of St. Francis, 13th-Century Monk Who Talked To Animals.
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Rating:  - Very inspiring movie
We enjoyed this movie very much. It was very inspiring, although it did leave out quite a portion of his life.
Would definitely recommend it.
Rating: - Old but Classic
Old movie, but still Classic...gives you info on St. Francis of Assisi. Inspirational on what he gave up and became for Christ.
Rating: - Wonderful and inspirational classic
This classic provides Christian inspiration in a very entertaining manner, in a backdrop of historically accurate heraldry and , for those of us with interest in chivalric medieval Orders, it also presents the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar in the "background". I like this version of the life of St. Francis much better than "Brother Sun, Sister Moon", which apparently was hijacked by the ideologies of the 1970's.
Rating:  - Sincerely poor
1961's Francis of Assisi is more a coloring book than a movie, a horribly miscast, painfully bland and often extremely badly written trudge through the saint's life that goes out of its way not to offend anyone but simply bores instead. The locations may be Italian but the aesthetic is pure Hollywood, and Hollywood at its least convincing: Francis' and his followers' march to Rome is filmed like something out of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as they hum along to Mario Nascimbene's score and Bradford Dillman charms the birds out of the trees. You almost expect to hear them sing Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off to Rome We Go. Dillman gives a superficial but inoffensive performance as Francis (inoffensive being the watchword here), often looking like Charlton Heston's undernourished younger brother, Stuart Whitman struggles and loses in almost every scene as Francis' brash aristocratic war-loving friend while Dolores Hart is no more convincing as Clare, which is particularly strange considering that in real life the actress went on to become a nun herself. Cecil Kelloway and Finlay Currie bring some old school professionalism to their small roles, but not enough to give the film much in the way of color, while Pedro Armendariz's casting as the Sultan inadvertently only highlights how weak the material he has to work with really is. Francis' failed mission to the Holy Land and the breakup of his order are covered in passing, but even they fail to bring any drama to the proceedings, while director Michael ... Read More
Rating: - Francis of Assisi
A fantastic movie about Saint Francis of Assisi. A good family movie for 7 and up. This DVD showed us the love and calling Francis had as a child, how he made his decisions for Christ as he got older, even against his fathers wishes. How he formed his mission and how God helped against all odds. It was amazing how he contrasted to the book of Daniel of the old testament, (Walking through the fire for God).... A true life miracle of faith was his life and the film depicts it's true meaning.
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