Harrison's Reports gave the film a grade of "Fair" and wrote that "Catholics and those strongly interested in religious themes will be about the only ones deriving much satisfaction from this CinemaScope-Color account of the life of St. There is in it none of that sense of wonder which distinguished Pierre Fresnay's memorable ' Monsieur Vincent,' a simple French essay in black and white." Apart from some individual scenes of pictorial appeal, I found the attempt unimaginative and flat. The result may please those willing to settle for a saint's biography. Coe of The Washington Post reported that "I kept regretting the firm had three million dollars to lavish on the project.
It is what I call a church film, pure and simple-ecclesiastical and eclectic." But the picture's appeal is limited decidedly to the devout and to those who would seek serene affirmation of their Christian faith. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times stated "The treatment is reverent and apparently unusually faithful to history, the color and CinemaScope production often eye-filling and the performances, while hardly exceptional, will hardly raise dissent. Variety wrote "The absence of sustained dramatic friction and a reluctance to grapple with conflicts and climaxes in visual terms results in an aura of absolute serenity and a characteristic of ponderous verbosity that may be true in spirit, tone and tempo to the tale of supreme devotion being told, but is unlikely to prove sufficiently palatable to modern audience tastes." There are frictions here, of course, but these are gentle affairs that are not especially memorable." Weiler of The New York Times wrote that "as a motion picture dependent on the dramatic conflict and exciting incidents that surely were synonymous with the emergence of such a towering man in such tumultuous times, it is as serene and static as ancient tapestries, limp on castle walls.
Bradford Dillman as Francis Bernardone of Assisi.The funeral befitted a man loved by man and beast alike, and ended with the birds he loved doing a flyby.
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The movie goes on to note miracles (such as the appearance of the stigmata on Francis's hands and feet) and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226. Francis has a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty. Francis that she leaves her family and becomes a nun. Clare ( Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who, according to the film, is so taken with St. He gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. He joins a military expedition, but deserts when an inner voice commands it. Francis Bernardone ( Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi.
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