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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790775609
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790775603
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Running Time: 175 minutes
Sales Rank: 60606
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1963
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
At once sprawling and intimate, Otto Preminger's coolly observed story of the education of a Catholic cardinal (Tom Tryon) spans 25 years of 20th-century social history, hops from Rome to Boston to Vienna, and confronts abortion, celibacy, and racism along the way. If those issues seem tame today, Preminger turns them into vivid drama in his hero's crisis and triumph of faith. Tryon is rather stolid and stiff, but the supporting cast helps liven scenes: Romy Schneider as a tempting Fräulein, Ossie Davis as an American priest who requests the Vatican take a stand against racism, John Huston's Oscar®-nominated performance as an irascible archbishop. It's a religious epic unlike any other of its time: thoughtful and serious, with a magnificent yet austere sense of composition and a graceful elegance. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 29
**** 1963. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger and based on Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal. Six Academy awards nominations and two Golden Globes (Best Picture and John Huston as Best Supporting actor). Stephen Fermoyle, on the verge of becoming cardinal remembers the high points of his life, between WWI and WWII. I watched this film four or five years ago when the DVD was released and wasn't so impressed at that time. But now, after having seen a lot of Otto Preminger movies during the ... Read More
Rating:  - Preminger's most underrated film, beautifully done....
For a long time I was not a major fan of Otto Preminger's work. I found it quite often too long and self important. But I was wonderfully surprised at how much I loved this film. It's my favorite Otto Preminger film, and my admiration of this film has made me go back and revisit all of Preminger's work, and I am finding that I was terribly wrong about him.
This is a wonderful film. It's moving, complex, literate, articulate, and surprisingly thought provoking. The subjects it tackles ... Read More
Rating:  - Absurdly Crude Social Critique
While Otto Preminger was capable of making a relatively intelligent film like "Advise and Consent" when he felt like it, this has to stand as one of the most crudely drawn and transparently manipulative sociopolitical films of all time. Notwithstanding a somewhat interesting performance by a palpably uncomfortable John Huston, this picture is little more than a succession of clichés so childish that even one sympathetic to its broader aims must feel shame at participating in its hamfisted and immoral ... Read More
Rating: - A Classic
This is a classic Catholic movie. I would recommend this movie to everyone. This movie is about the story of a priest who, after facing many difficulties becomes a cardinal. One of the reasons I enjoy this film so much is that portrays priest in such a positive light,which is a rarity in any movie.Even though this movie portrays priests positively, it does not paint an unrealistic all-priests-are-saints type picture either. The story spans several decades, beginning with world war one and ending just towards ... Read More
Rating: - So what happened to Florrie Fermoyle
Having seen the Film The Cardinal, I am left wondering what happened to Maggie McNamara character Florrie Fermoyle we see her in the first part of th movie where she has a fight with her sister
then at her nieces 1st birthday party. in the second part of the film she is missing when the mother,brother and niece meet Stephen Fermoyle in new york and at the end where he is made a cardinal.
So what happen to this Character? it bothers me that she disappeared without a trace. In one review here her ... Read More
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