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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 4, 2006
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Anthony Quinn | |
| Performer: | Leo McKern, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica & Barbara Jefford | |
| Directed by | Michael Anderson | |
| Edited by | Ernest Walter | |
| Screenwriting by | John Patrick & James Kennaway | |
| Composition by | Alex North | |
| Cinematography by | Erwin Hillier | |
| Art Direction by | George W. Davis & Edward C. Carfagno | |
| Produced by | George Englund |
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Rating: C+ --
Critics have comically dubbed it Zorba the Pope.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/10 --
...it gets so bogged down in subplots and minutiae, it loses its way.
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Movie Metropolis
Unless you have read the novel by Morris West on which the film is based, the first two hours are unintelligible.
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New York Times
Settle back and let this old fashioned but entirely enjoyable epic (from Aussie writer Morris West's novel) take you on a journey that is in many ways every bit as relevant today as it was then
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: B --
A curious, at times almost prescient anticipation of the reign of John Paul II, filtered partly through the lens of the Silly Sixties.
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Decent Films Guide
Rating: B- --
All-star cast, headed by Anthony Quinn, Olivier and Gielgud, can't help Anderson's poor transfern of Morris West's bestseller, an international political thriller about a Russian survivor of the gulag who becomes pope; best thing is Alex North's score.
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Product Description:
The world's first duly elected Russian Pope tries to prevent not only an atomic war, but starvation in Red China as well. Based on Morris l. West's best-selling novel. Academy Award Nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Original Score.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Shoes of the Fisherman, The
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
Year: 1968
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, Sir John Gielgud
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- Sales Rank: 31,960
- UPC: 012569517424
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