Preminger terrorized Tyron on the set by screaming at him so bad that Tryon physically shook all the time and had trouble remembering his lines. Unlike other actors, he didn't have the cojones to stand up to Otto.
4:30 When I watched this on TV it was a different actor here we have Murry Hamilton the TV version had Patrick O Neil both were in the TWILIGHT ZONE [ I guess Otto Preminger like different takes trying different actors
An Angel of the Lord after He Approaches me, He leaves me with two words... "The Cardinal"... He Obviously... mentioned it to me to deliver me a message...
This movie was made 50+ years ago and is a good example of mass-appeal melodrama disguised as serious drama. Preminger was a hack director who made big-budget schlock, often with A-list stars of the day. It was like watching the RC Church movie equivalent of "Dallas" or "Falcon Crest". It was no more "real" than so-called "reality TV" garbage broadcast today. It was a different, much more uptight world, and this movie reflected it. Tom Tryon was as stiff as a steel girder.
I saw this movie on TV when I was very young. The scene that most sticks in my mind is the time when his sister is dying in child birth. The baby cannot be born. They can save the mother if he gives permission to crush the head of the child. He wants to go to heaven and be with Jesus so he chooses to let his own sister die with her child who will also die rather then allowing the doctors to save her life. He is claiming that it would be a sin of killing an unborn baby that will certainly die anyway. This scene has been for me the clearest example of what it really means to be a Christian. Being that your own entrance to heaven is the only thing that matters no matter who else you must hurt or sacrifice. Only your position with God maters. Thus Christians are fundamentally evil and selfish. Nothing in all the years since that time has done anything to change my opinion of Christians, or any religion for that matter. Fundementally they are all the same, evil and selfish.
dalecs47 Does your logic say that if he gave permission to actively kill the baby, then he would not be evil? There is a principle that one should not do evil to accomplish a good.
The choice is to either save the mother at the death of the child, or save the child at the death of the mother. He chooses to save the child because he, as a Catholic, cannot condone abortion even in an emergency. Later in the movie you see the child of his sister all grown up. I recommend you watch the movie agains since your original assessment is wrong and your conclusion regarding Christianity and Christians is also flawed and wrong. .
+dalecs47 He just let God's will be done. If God would have wanted it, both the mother and the child would have been spared. God decided his sister had fulfilled His plan on earth, so He called her to Heaven. It was God's will to let the child live, because he had a purpose in life. The priest was right. You can't commit murder (and abortion is murder) to save a life.
Tom tryon deserved at least an Academy Award Nomination for this film! I love Tom in this film its my favorite of all the films he did.
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Thanks for uploading.
This movie is as relevant today as it was 50 yrs ago maybe more so
More so.. Catholics are wandering the desert of secularism...Many have lost or never learned the the true sacrifice of Jesus...
…and many of us know our faith well.
Even 8 minutes of that seemed to last forever. Thanks, I guess?
you forgot the final scene speech.
Preminger terrorized Tyron on the set by screaming at him so bad that Tryon physically shook all the time and had trouble remembering his lines. Unlike other actors, he didn't have the cojones to stand up to Otto.
I got this film on amazon years ago ... and there was a new blu-ray release in 2013.
Please upload the full movie
4:30 When I watched this on TV it was a different actor here we have Murry Hamilton the TV version had Patrick O Neil both were in the TWILIGHT ZONE [ I guess Otto Preminger like different takes trying different actors
I SHOULDN’T HAVE COME HERE
Where can I find the DVD? Thanks
ebay?
@ChristainPatriot01 You know Fr. Bishop? I take it you're from L.A.?
An Angel of the Lord after He Approaches me, He leaves me with two words... "The Cardinal"... He Obviously... mentioned it to me to deliver me a message...
:11 Doug from Days of Our Lives.
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These are real lives? Like the opium line? wow.
Who taught you to lie? You say you are showing The Cardinal (1963) Full Movie but you are only showing 8 min. Stop lying!!!
This movie was made 50+ years ago and is a good example of mass-appeal melodrama disguised as serious drama. Preminger was a hack director who made big-budget schlock, often with A-list stars of the day. It was like watching the RC Church movie equivalent of "Dallas" or "Falcon Crest". It was no more "real" than so-called "reality TV" garbage broadcast today. It was a different, much more uptight world, and this movie reflected it. Tom Tryon was as stiff as a steel girder.
I saw this movie on TV when I was very young. The scene that most sticks in my mind is the time when his sister is dying in child birth. The baby cannot be born. They can save the mother if he gives permission to crush the head of the child. He wants to go to heaven and be with Jesus so he chooses to let his own sister die with her child who will also die rather then allowing the doctors to save her life. He is claiming that it would be a sin of killing an unborn baby that will certainly die anyway. This scene has been for me the clearest example of what it really means to be a Christian. Being that your own entrance to heaven is the only thing that matters no matter who else you must hurt or sacrifice. Only your position with God maters. Thus Christians are fundamentally evil and selfish. Nothing in all the years since that time has done anything to change my opinion of Christians, or any religion for that matter. Fundementally they are all the same, evil and selfish.
dalecs47 Does your logic say that if he gave permission to actively kill the baby, then he would not be evil? There is a principle that one should not do evil to accomplish a good.
The choice is to either save the mother at the death of the child, or save the child at the death of the mother. He chooses to save the child because he, as a Catholic, cannot condone abortion even in an emergency. Later in the movie you see the child of his sister all grown up. I recommend you watch the movie agains since your original assessment is wrong and your conclusion regarding Christianity and Christians is also flawed and wrong.
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+dalecs47 He just let God's will be done. If God would have wanted it, both the mother and the child would have been spared. God decided his sister had fulfilled His plan on earth, so He called her to Heaven. It was God's will to let the child live, because he had a purpose in life. The priest was right. You can't commit murder (and abortion is murder) to save a life.
dalecs47 what I never understood from the book was that the mother was of age and no one asked her.
If my memory serves ... I don't believe she was coherent enough to give her consent....but I could be wrong. Good book.