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.
1961
HD
105min
NR
United States
English
Michael Curtiz
Bradford Dillman
Stuart Whitman
Dolores Hart
Russell Napier
Finlay Currie
Mervyn Johns
Athene Seyler
Cecil Kellaway
Eduard Franz
biography
monk
singing
13th century
saint
cross
saint francis of assisi
