Fresh
This is an extremely well constructed film, made with a balance that keeps its overflowing plot line in perfect control.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
The Cardinal
A motion picture that spans two decades of conflict and drama as it tells the story of a young American and his rise to prince of the church.
1963 · 3h 5m · Approved
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Otto Preminger
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The Cardinal
Overview
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Director and cast
- Otto Preminger Director
- Tom Tryon as Stephen Fermoyle
- Romy Schneider as Annemarie von Hartman
- John Huston as Kardinal Glennon
- Carol Lynley as Mona Fermoyle / Regina Fermoyle
- Dorothy Gish as Celia Fermoyle / Regina Fermoyle
- Maggie McNamara as Florrie Fermoyle
- Bill Hayes as Frank Fermoyle
- Cameron Prud'Homme as Din Fermoyle
- John Saxon as Benny Rampell
- Loring Smith Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Risible script based on a doorstop novel by Henry Morton Robinson, but handled by Preminger with tremendous panache; worth seeing just for the incredible skill and flair with which he stages the action and moves the camera.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
he end is a great letdown from what Mr. Preminger might have accomplished with the 1950 novel of Henry Morton Robinson. There is no strong flow of spirit through it. Even the melodrama is perfunctory and weak.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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