“The Pride and the Passion” is a melodramatic war film set in the Napoleonic period in the nineteenth century. Producer-director Stanley Kramer (“Not as a Stanger” 1955) overreached in his adaptation of C. S. Forester’s 1933 novel “The Gun.” The movie was too long at 132 minutes running time, from a tedious screenplay by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt. It was just too boring, to put it bluntly.
The presence of stars Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra assured the film’s modest financial success, attracting audiences with their respective charismatic personas. Co-stars include Theodore Bikel, Jay Novello, Philip Van Zandt, John Wengraf, Jose Nieto, Carlos Larranaga in this unwatchable dud of a movie filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision for Stanley Kramer Pictures and United Artists.
The Pride and the Passion (1957)
cinema
My Review
“The Pride and the Passion” is a melodramatic war film set in the Napoleonic period in the nineteenth century. Producer-director Stanley Kramer (“Not as a Stanger” 1955) overreached in his adaptation of C. S. Forester’s 1933 novel “The Gun.” The movie was too long at 132 minutes running time, from a tedious screenplay by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt. It was just too boring, to put it bluntly.
The presence of stars Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra assured the film’s modest financial success, attracting audiences with their respective charismatic personas. Co-stars include Theodore Bikel, Jay Novello, Philip Van Zandt, John Wengraf, Jose Nieto, Carlos Larranaga in this unwatchable dud of a movie filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision for Stanley Kramer Pictures and United Artists.