| Francis of Assisi | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Plato A. Skouras |
| Written by | Louis De Wohl (novel) Eugene Vale (screenplay) |
| Starring | Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
| Cinematography | Piero Portalupi |
| Editing by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Distributed by | Perseus Productions |
| Release date(s) | July 12, 1961 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Francis of Assisi is a Delux color 1961 Cinemascope film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl.
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A religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi (Bradford Dillman). St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who was so taken with St. Francis that she left her family and became a nun. St. Francis by this time (1212 A.D.) had a well-established reputation for his vows of poverty, the story goes on to note miracles and other aspects of his life, up to and including his death on October 3, 1226.[1]