Pilgrim's Progress

Just learned of the book Pilgrim's Progress last year and searched to find this movie after reading the book.

. Although not exactly like John Bunyans story I liked it. It isn't often one can find a wholesome and Bible focused movie ( yes, I realize this version is 1978, but it's the essence of the story I was looking for...the walk of any Christian with their mistakes and a forgiving Saviour and eventually success).

A question, in the frame in the Interpretors house there is a picture with a man with his back to the world, where Pilgrim asks "what is the meaning of this picture"...I'm wondering, does anyone know the name of the picture and the artist?

The Story is about a Pilgrim who is escaping the city of destruction leaving his family behind and traveling to the Celestial city which he has read about in the Bible. He faces many troubles, temptations, trials, disappointments, failures. But in the end he finally reaches the Celestial city!Not perfect but good presentation. Acting was good as well as the story.The story is easy to understand and relate to. The movie really helps you to prepare for the Eternal Kingdom (Heaven) and how to be a faithful, helpful and hopeful Christian while on earth.You even have young Liam Neeson as the Evangelist,Help,etc various characters. Do watch this movie and stay blessed.

This movie has been a real life-changer, articulately written and directed amazingly which has contributed all the more to its wonderful script! For those of you who know John Bunyan would truly know the value of this novel he wrote and all the pain he put into beautifully upbraiding the gist of the whole story. Though this movie's just a part of the whole book and left many parts untouched, it has truly proved the point. To those you who really applaud Christian-based epics and so forth, The Pilgrim's Progress would indeed be of a great help in knowing more about the inherent truths about the like to a great depth.

I give it a 10/10 for the script and the performance of all the actors in this wonderful journey!!! Don't MISS IT!!

The cast listing on this picture is incorrect. Peter Thomas is not Worldly Wiseman, he is Pilgrim/Christian. Liam Neeson is both Jesus Christ and Evangelist (his first film experience, and Ken & Max Anderson were a geniuses at talent-scouting). Liam was also in "Christiana", the sequel ("Christiana's Progress" was also Bunyan's sequel to "Pilgrim's Progress"). I believe Maurice O'Callaghan was Worldly Wiseman, who was also Apollyon in Christiana, where Peter Thomas was Pilgrim again and Liam Neeson was Greatheart. Peter is the son of the great Christian preacher/teacher Major Ian Thomas, who wrote "The Indwelling Life of Christ", and founded the Capernwray Schools and Lodges, and began the Torchbearer ministry in churches. Peter is now the National Director and Principal of Capernwray New Zealand (http://www.capernwray.org.nz/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=38817) which is a great school, and an all-around great guy, just like his father was.

A nice form of innocence, the faithful relation with the novel of John Bunyan are the basic virtues of this charming, first for honesty, film. Modest and charming in some measure, boring in high measure , silly for small special effects, saved by the presence more than acting of the young Liam Neeson and for the fair reflection of the essence of one of the most Anglican books , it is a good introduction or a nice remind.

Obvious, it could be better and the critics are not just wrong but it represents that genre of poor film saved by the reasonable dose of the nostalgia inspired.