In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
History, Drama
Release:
July 1961
Production:
Perseus Productions, 20th Century Fox
Cast:
Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway, Eduard Franz, Athene Seyler, Finlay Currie, Mervyn Johns, Russell Napier, John Welsh, Harold Goldblatt, Edith Sharpe, Oliver Johnston, Malcolm Keen, Jack Lambert, Pedro Armendáriz
Tags:
monk, biography, singing, cross, saint, 13th century, saint francis of assisi