Christopher Columbus (1949)
- Starring:
- Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, (more)
- Director(s):
- David MacDonald
Synopsis of Christopher Columbus
Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top miniatures impersonating the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria (punctuated by rumbles of mutiny--no, not "rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny") Columbus reaches the New World. Though obviously filmed on an extravagant budget (Technicolor was still a rare commodity in 1949), the British Christopher Columbus has less going for it than the 1939 Porky Pig cartoon Christopher Columbus Jr.. Filmgoers stayed away in droves, as they would when the movie industry "rediscovered" Columbus for a brace of disastrous multimillion-dollar films in 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Christopher Columbus
- Fredric March - Christopher Columbus
- Francis L. Sullivan - Francisco de Bobadilla
- Kathleen Ryan - Beatriz
- Derek Bond - Diego de Aranas
- James Robertson Justice - Martin Pinzon
- Richard Aherne - Vincente Pinzon
- Francis Lister - King Ferdinand
- Ronald Adam - Talavera
- Niall MacGinnis - Juan de la Cosa
- Stuart Lindsell - Prior
- Lynn Evans - Lope
- Florence Eldridge - Isabella of Spain
- Linden Travers - Beatriz de Peraza
- Nora Swinburne - Juana de Torres
- Abraham Sofaer - Luis de Santangel
- Dennis Vance - Francesco Pinzon
- Felix Aylmer - Father Perez
- Edward Rigby - Pedro
- Ralph Truman - Captain
- Hugh Pryse - Almoner
- David Cole - Columbus' Son
- Guy le Feuvre - Admiral
- Director(s):
- David MacDonald
- Writer(s):
- Sydney Box, Cyril Roberts, Muriel Box
- Producer(s):
- Frank F. Bundy
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