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Constantine And The Cross

1962, Movie, NR, 120 mins

Constantine And The Cross: Review

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Blood-letting, political intrigue, and romance as warrior Constantine rises to emperor status and finally gets the Romans and the lions off the backs of the outlawed Christians in this dubbed film of old Roman swordplay. The battle scenes are well staged--but a few of the sequences of torture and Christian-eating lions do get a bit graphic. A child actress in German films in the 1950s, Kaufmann developed into an attractive leading lady in international productions in the 1960s and married Tony Curtis in 1963. After their divorce in 1967, she returned to Germany. Boyer is a talented but impoverished musician living in the home of his slightly mad mentor and four wild daughters in the Austrian Alps. Fontaine is one of the daughters and she develops a crush on Boyer of which he is not aware. When Coburn, an uncle, turns up with his socially prominent daughter, Smith, a romance blooms between her and the musician and they eventually marry and return to England. Fontaine pops up in England just in time to give Boyer the inspiration he needs to continue his work. He soon realizes it is really Fontaine he loves, but during the presentation of his successful symphonic poem his young love is so elated she has a heart attack and dies. Fontaine is brilliant. (Remade from the 1933 production; a silent version in 1928 starred Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton.) The musical tone poem "Tomorrow" evolved from the powerful score. The film was originally set for Errol Flynn and Joan Leslie to star in. leave a comment
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