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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 5713
Released: April 4, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the selection of the next Pope. But this time, much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world hovering on the edge of nuclear nightmare. Year: 1968 Director: Michael Anderson Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, Sir John Gielgud
Description of The Shoes of the Fisherman:
If you find during the 160-minute running time of The Shoes of the Fisherman that you don't like the plot, wait 10 minutes. It will surely change and there will be another story thread to entice you. The screenplay is literally all over the map: Siberia, where Archbishop Kiril Lakota, played splendidly by Anthony Quinn, has been exiled to a work camp in the oppressive Soviet regime; Moscow, where a genially scene-chewing Laurence Olivier plays a Soviet ruler with history with Lakota; China, where famine threatens to bring the world of the late '60s to the brink of World War III; and Rome, where Lakota travels after being freed (and where dissolute reporter David Janssen does his best to groove on the Swinging Sixties). Yet despite its flaws, the movie's central drama is riveting: the current Pope dies suddenly, and for a good bit of the film, viewers are treated to the Vatican's inner workings on the election of a new Pope. The events unfold at a leisurely pace, which allows you to drink in the spectacle and wonder of the ancient traditions. The Alex North Oscar-nominated score is lovely, and Quinn's performance is the somber-with-a-humble-twinkle glue that holds the film together. Anyone interested in the traditions and rituals of the Vatican will find plenty to savor. --A.T. Hurley
The Shoes of the Fisherman Reviews:
SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN 
2009-12-15 - OUTSTANDING MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MIXES HOW THE CHURCH WORKS INTERNALLY WITH A FICTIONAL STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They dont make them like this anymore........
2009-11-23 - Ok, maybe not a full 5, cause its not a perfect movie..but there is such a 'WoW'
factor here because of all these great actors/actresses giving their fullest for
this movie, some of them i really taught they were part of the Vatican...such
great acting is included in this wonderfull film. Anthony Quinn captured his
role dead on and brought tears in my eyes as the film proceeded. For a film
done so many years ago, it still holds and still demands attention.
Im glad after so many years i see this film again...and this time, its in my DVD
collection for future viewing. A Keeper.
The Shoes of the Fisherman
2009-05-30 - This is an excellent film. It is a little long but worth watching. It is well acted with some excellent actors and plots and subplots.
It is about Faith, Love, and Hope for the future along with one man's struggle from nothing into the modern world and finding his faith relevant. Although their are several subplots they all converge on the the central theme of Faith or Faith recovered, Love, Hope, and Hope for the future. Excellent movie
Fantastic
2009-05-18 - This is a great, great film, if you're Catholic or not, it doesn't matter, you will be held spellbound by the process by which a new pope is selected and that, like we all would want, a great and humble man becomes pontiff. Great stuff. I'd recently finished a few months working in Rome so this was a welcome nostalgia blitz. If that makes any sense!
A Film Classic
2008-12-26 - Although some of this film is quite dated. It still is quite an enteraining work of fiction that on many levels is an MGM Classic.
Many folks think this film was prophetic in a few ways. Anthony Quinn as usual delivers a brilliant performace, The rest of the cast including
Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, and Leo McKern of the "Rumpole of the Bailey" fame all shine in their parts. It is a little wierd to hear
Laurence Olivier trying to sound like a Russian Preimer, but he pulls it
off. I have to guess that many reviewer have not read the book that this
movie is based on. George Faber the journalist is just as much a part of the story as anyone else in this story, and David Janssen makes his role
believeable. Oskar Werner's Father Telemond is almost as interesting as
Anthony Quinn's Pope Kiril I. It makes the viewer wonder about many things
Faith is debated and some of the most important questions of the Christian Life are examined especailly the questions of putting the Church's power to use its resources to help prevent famine and to save the world from a nuclear nightmare. These are the things that make the movie and its story timeless.
