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| Genre | Drama |
| Format | Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen See more |
| Contributor | Tom Tryon, Dorothy Gish, Burgess Meredith, Billie Hayes, Otto Preminger, Robert Morse, Carol Lynley, Robert Dozier, Maggie McNamara, John Saxon, John Huston, Henry Morton Robinson See more |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 2 hours and 59 minutes |
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Cardinal: Special Edition (Dbl DVD) Youthful pride. Yearnings of the flesh. Moments of doubt. The courage of conviction. All enter into a dedicated American's decades-long rise from priesthood to the leadership elite of the College of Cardinals. Otto Preminger presents The Cardinal, winner of a Golden Globe Best Picture Award and nominated for six 1963 Academy Awards, including Best Director. Typical of Preminger's films, The Cardinal is packed with stars and issues. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Burgess Meredith and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner John Huston are players in a rich storyline embracing interfaith marriage, abortion, racism and war.
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At once sprawling and intimate, Otto Preminger's coolly observed story of the education of a Catholic cardinal (Tom Tryon) spans 25 years of 20th-century social history, hops from Rome to Boston to Vienna, and confronts abortion, celibacy, and racism along the way. If those issues seem tame today, Preminger turns them into vivid drama in his hero's crisis and triumph of faith. Tryon is rather stolid and stiff, but the supporting cast helps liven scenes: Romy Schneider as a tempting Fräulein, Ossie Davis as an American priest who requests the Vatican take a stand against racism, John Huston's Oscar®-nominated performance as an irascible archbishop. It's a religious epic unlike any other of its time: thoughtful and serious, with a magnificent yet austere sense of composition and a graceful elegance. --Sean Axmaker
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The two-DVD set includes the feature-length 1991 documentary Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker and a six-minute promotional featurette from 1963. --Sean Axmaker
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 4 Ounces
- Item model number : 2232743
- Director : Otto Preminger
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 59 minutes
- Release date : September 20, 2005
- Actors : John Huston, John Saxon, Burgess Meredith, Carol Lynley, Tom Tryon
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Otto Preminger
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B00007K01W
- Writers : Robert Dozier
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #85,731 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #7,438 in Kids & Family DVDs
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The story begins when Bishop Stephen Fermoyle (Thomas Tyron in his most remembered performance) receives a formal letter from the Vatican in Rome. Such formal letters are read allowed in great ceremony where we learn he has been appointed a Cardinal by the Holy See. As the letter is being read, Fermoyle begins to remember in his own mind the religious and secular journey he has taken to arrive at this moment, a dream for many priests in the Roman Catholic. Many may aspire but few are called to become a Cardinal. Most of the film is essentially in flash-back. The story goes back in time to the ceremony in which he became an ordained priest in a ceremony officiated by the local Bishop back in Boston in the United States.
The first issue with which the young priest faces concerns his sister and her current love relationship. The trouble is, her lover is not only not Roman Catholic, he's not a Christian; he's Jewish. Father Fermoyle than resolves he can solve the problem and entice the Jew to convert to Roman Catholicism. However, the plan doesn't work. At one point her sister comes to the church and enters the confessional, but she's looking for guidance from her older brother, not a cleric who simply wants to reinforce church doctrine. Eventually, the relationship between brother and sister is shattered, and tragic results eventually ensue. Father Fermoyle, now in service to Bishop-Cardinal Glennon (John Huston in an Academy-Award nominated performance) tells the bishop he may not be able to continue as a priest. He goes on leave from the church, and briefly entertains the joys of secular life in Paris.
Father Fermoyle eventually begins working for the Vatican as a priest without a parish. Father Willis (Ossie Davis), an African-American priest from the United States pays Father Fermoyle an unexpected visit. He needs help with his church back home which was burned by white supremacists in his hometown in the rural American South. The American priest is asking for an audience with the Pope. Although he is unable to arrange an audience with the pontiff himself, Fermoyle is certain that one of the high-ranking Cardinal-bishops would give him an audience and aid in the cause against racism. To their astonishment, the Cardinal offers no help but feels it's something which the Americans need to resolve. They also feel it's too politically charged to enmesh themselves into the racist issues plaguing America. Father Willis leaves the Vatican disappointed.
Then unexpectedly, at his home in the South, Willis receives a special guest: Father Fermoyle. Fermoyle has traveled from Rome to the American South to aid Father Willis, although his presence is "unofficial". Fermoyle is not in the local town as a representative from Rome but simply there under his own cognizance. He then learns the local authorities want to sweep the business of the church burning under the proverbial rug. Another local priest, probably Anglican, also tries to compel Willis not to testify in court. However, Father Fermoyle supports Willis in his resolve to confront the issue in the local court. The Vatican priest learns some of the white locals don't like outsiders meddling in their affairs, and they don white sheets at night to make their point.
Why I think "the Cardinal" works as well as it does is because the story doesn't come off dated or sanguine. The issues confronted by the story are very real, and these episodes resonate today with the problems of racial and religious intolerance. I think the point of the story is that, to become a Cardinal from the rank of a lowly priest is a very arduous journey. The story rings slightly of the rise of Pope John-Paul II who, when he was a young parish priest in Poland, hid and helped Jewish refugees escape from the clutches of the Nazis. Even the current pontiff, Pope Francis I, became a vocal opponent of fascism in South America. While certainly, some priests rise to higher ranks because of their loyalty to doctrine, others gain the ranks because of engaging in blood, sweat and tears. While the Cardinal is a fictional account of such a rise, the film does demonstrate a few are given the privilege because of their contribution to humanity at large.
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impress maintaining the sincerity of its subject. The DVD I have is still an acceptable quality print.
I bought the blu-ray version (Spanish import) and they have washed out the general look
of the film by an over increase of contrast, almost white washing skin tones which has interfered
with the general overall colourful cinematography of the original film.
This looks to me like its been copied from another 'source" and fiddled with by unqualified hands.
Ken Barrett
Mooroolbark Vic
Australia.








