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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: 6513
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1961
Editorial Review:
Description:
Lavish Bio Of St. Francis, 13th-Century Monk Who Talked To Animals.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - "What Do You Want Me To Do?" ~ Building Chapels In The Heart
If you were to take a survey amongst Catholics asking them who was there favorite Saint chances are they're going to say Francis of Assisi. If you're unfamiliar with the life and accomplishments of this beloved personage and would like to learn a little bit about him the '61 film appropriately titled 'Saint Francis' would be a good place to begin. Bradford Dillman delivers a very Christ-like portrayal of Francis, Dolores Hart is sheer perfection as the gentle Claire and Stuart Whitman adds the necessary ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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