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Francis of Assisi is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope epic film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1958 novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl. The film starred Bradford Dillman, in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles (he usually played a villainous character onscreen), Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman.
With Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway. 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.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Michael Curtiz
- 1961-07-12
Mar 25, 2023 · 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 re...
- 103 min
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Early in the 13th century, young Francis Bernardone, the pleasure-seeking son of an Assisi cloth merchant, becomes increasingly aware of the emptiness of his life. Hoping to find some meaning for his existence, he answers the call of Pope Innocent III and joins the army being formed to liberate Sicily for King Frederick.
- Michael Curtiz, Ottavio Oppo
- Bradford Dillman
Francis of Assisi is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope epic film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1958 novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl. The film starred Bradford Dillman, in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles, Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman.
- Michael Curtiz
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.
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Directed by Michael Curtiz, the Hungarian-American director most famous for his classic films Casablanca (1942) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Francis of Assisi, released in 1961 by Twentieth Century Fox, is a rather straightforward tale covering the “greatest hits” of Francis’ hagiography with some fictional embellishments ...
