Le Cardinal

Original title: The Cardinal

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6.7/10

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Romy Schneider and Tom Tryon in Le Cardinal (1963)

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

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A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

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6.7/10

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Nominated for 6 Oscars
- 3 wins & 13 nominations total

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Trivia
The Vatican bankrolled some of the film, and the Vatican liaison was a young Joseph Ratzinger, who in 2005 became the 265th Catholic Pope as Benedict XVI.

Goofs
All along the movie, we see, leading to St Peter's square, the Via della Conciliazione and its palazzi, built for the Holy Year of 1950, under the pontificate of Pius XII, whose election Cardinal Fermoyle is supposed to take part at the very end of the movie.

Quotes
Cardinal Glennon: We've never had a priest working with the Mafia before. But I suppose you made some interesting contacts in Rome.
Stephen Fermoyle: I had no choice, Your Eminence. I had to work my way through the seminary by selling opium in St. Peter's Square.
Cardinal Glennon: You're not afraid of me.
Stephen Fermoyle: No.
Cardinal Glennon: Why not? Most people are.
Stephen Fermoyle: I think it's because you remind me of my father. He was known as "Den the Down Shouter," but I soon learned his roar was the only fierce thing about him.
Cardinal Glennon: He's a lucky man to have a son who's not afraid of him.

Connections
Featured in Otto Preminger : Anatomie d'un réalisateur (1991)

Soundtracks
They Haven't Got the Girls in the U.S.A.
Lyrics by Al Stillman
Music by Jerome Moross (uncredited)
Performed by Robert Morse (uncredited)

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Featured review

8/10

A life devoted to God

The Cardinal l'd watched in 1984 on TV, an overlong movie, in that time l didn't have any idea how meaning of the pictures itself, today after a long time l've the opportunity to re-watch this one from Otto Preminger's unknown movie, after almost three hours long l finally recognized this picture is really amazing, telling a story about a young priest in Boston until a high position in Catholic Church, the movie is showing in flashbacks since the beginning, all the facts one of the most remarkable is about the Father Ned Halley played by Burgess Meredith who died in poverty, another was when he has to help a nigro priest in Georgia and has to confront the segregationist system in this town, the story through the time have many faces until the final, once more Otto Preminger proves as one of best directors for all times!! Underrated movie!!

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First watch: 1984 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5