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Actors: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo Director: Carol Reed Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 138 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: February 22, 2005 Theatrical Release Date: October 7, 1965 Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Carol Reed The Third Man directed this 1965 portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo Charlton Heston and Pope Julius II Rex Harrison, who commissioned the artist to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Based on a novel by Irving Stone, the script plods along, juggling the dynamics between the two men along with a somewhat perfunctory love story and distracting battle sequences. Reed seems more attuned to the nuances and great pains of the artistic process, as seen in sequences of Michelangelo working. But the overall focus of the film is unfortunately fuzzy. --Tom Keogh
Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison portray two of the Renaissance's most colorful figures in this historical drama based on Irving Stone's best-seller set in the early 16th century. When Pope Julius ll Harrison commissions Michelangelo Heston to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees to Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie. Nominated for an Oscar® Cinematography and named one of the year's best films by the National Board of Review.
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