Francis of Assisi (film)
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For the historical person, see Francis of Assisi.
Francis of Assisi is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope epic film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1958 novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl. The film starred Bradford Dillman, in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles (he usually played a villainous character onscreen), Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman. Shot entirely in Italy, it was a box office bomb.
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Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
Screenplay by | Eugene Vale James Forsyth Jack W. Thomas |
Based on | The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl |
Produced by | Plato A. Skouras |
Starring | Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman |
Cinematography | Piero Portalupi |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
Production company | Perseus Productions |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.015 million[1] |
Box office | $1.8 million (US/Canada)[2][3] |
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Two years after initial release, Hart, who played St. Clare, became a Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut.[4]