“The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross”
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Michael Curtiz
Plato A. Skouras
James Forsyth
Eugene Vale
Jack W. Thomas
Piero Portalupi
Mario Nascimbene
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
Finlay Currie
The Pope
Mervyn Johns
Brother Juniper
Russell Napier
Brother Elias
John Welsh
Canon Cattanei
Harold Goldblatt
Bernard
Edith Sharpe
Donna Pica
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This might have been better had Michael Curtiz cast it better, as it is Bradford Dillman delivers us quite an undercooked offering as the eponymous character from 13th Century Italy. The film is colourful and the story gets an authentic Hollywood makeover, but somehow the sentiment of this man who s...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1961) Theatrical Trailer - Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman
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Perseus Productions
20th Century Fox