The Pride and the Passion
by Stanley Kramer
List Price:
Our Price: $13.49
You Save: $1.49 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.39 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, John Wengraf, Sophia Loren, Theodore BikelDirector: Stanley Kramer
Cinematographer: Franz Planer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland
Writer: C.S. Forester
Writer: Earl Felton
Writer: Edna Anhalt
Writer: Edward Anhalt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Pride and the Passion
Movie Review: Big Gun No Fun
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this on a whim since I remeber seeing the film when it came out and love Forester novels. Trouble is, its all Hollywood with Italians (Sinatra and Loren) playing Spaniards and Cary Grant putting on his dress navy coat just to haul a cannon 600 miles across Spain. The VCR I received was good quality for its age so no complaints there. It just is not a very good film.
Summary of The Pride and the Passion
Napoleon's forces are sweeping across Europe, and Spain is on the brink of falling to the mighty invasion. Standing alone against the onslaught is one brave fighter and his ragtag band of guerillas. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren deliver outstanding performances in this "tense, absorbing [and] suspenseful" (The Hollywood Reporter) wartime classic. Seizing a gigantic cannon, Spanish fighter Miguel (Sinatra) plans to attack Napoleon's army by battering the walls of French-occupied Avila. But because he's untrained in complex weaponry, he must rely on the expertise ofCaptain Trumbell (Grant), a British naval officer. Allies on the battlefield, Trumbell and Miguel soon find themselves in a bitter struggle over Miguel's mistress (Loren), a sultry beauty drawn to the captain's refined ways even as they race toward the most harrowing battle of their lives.During Napoleon's invasion of Spain, the fate of the Spanish partisans rests with an elaborate, magnificent, and extremely heavy cannon--which the French have lost. Despite the high-wattage star power on display, this gun is the true star of The Pride and the Passion, a massive Stanley Kramer production that employs vast swatches of the Spanish countryside (and a few thousand Spaniards). And the stars? Well, they're among the biggest of their day--the only problem is, they're miscast. Frank Sinatra plays the scruffy, illiterate partisan leader, Cary Grant the uptight British captain who covets the gun for his country, Sophia Loren the peasant woman shared by both men. It says something about these effortless stars that they all look extremely uncomfortable in this movie. Grant is robbed of his humor and thus awkward (although his marvelous athleticism is much on display), and Loren is badly made-up and stuck in nobility. Sinatra fares the worst, however, including a disastrous Spanish accent, complete with rolled "r"s. Physically, the movie's pretty impressive, with some eye-filling scenes of extras pushing the heavy cannon up hill and over dale; Franz Planer's cinematography is picturesque, except in some obvious studio inserts. One big draw: the mighty, Iberian-flavored music by George Antheil, one of the composer's best scores. But you'd better like the music and the cannon, because the rest of the film hovers between the tranquilizing and the cheesy. Amazingly, it was one of the top ten box-office films of its year. --Robert Horton
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Frank Sinatra films (Part 1)
![The List of Adrian Messenger [VHS] Image](/images/The-List-of-Adrian-Messenger-VHS-6300184013-X.jpg){kind=small}
The List of Adrian Messenger [VHS]Universal Studios; Release date: 1994-01-12; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $84.95
4 for TexasWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $5.56
Price in other shops:
![Come Blow Your Horn [VHS] Image](/images/Come-Blow-Your-Horn-VHS-6302116996-X.jpg){kind=small}
Come Blow Your Horn [VHS]Paramount; Release date: 1991-08-08; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
Sergeants 3TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $7.61
Price in other shops:
The Road to Hong KongRelease date: 2002-12-03; DVD
Best price: $4.81
Price in other shops:
The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)LEIGH,JANET; Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $3.39
Price in other shops:
The Devil at 4 O'ClockRelease date: 2003-01-14; DVD
Best price: $63.27
Ocean's 11Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $5.74
Price in other shops:
Can-CanCancan; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $9.41
Price in other shops:
Never So FewWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $5.57
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Man of La ManchaTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2004-05-11; DVD
Best price: $19.95
Kiss Them for MeGRANT,CARY; Release date: 2004-01-06; DVD
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops:
Captain Horatio HornblowerWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-03-06; DVD
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
Father GooseRelease date: 2001-09-18; DVD
Best price: $8.37
Price in other shops:
Walk Don't RunSony; Release date: 2003-04-29; DVD
Best price: $12.42
Price in other shops:
The Fall Of The Roman Empire (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-04-29; DVD
Best price: $4.88
Price in other shops:
It Started in NaplesGABLE,CLARK; Release date: 2005-07-12; DVD
Best price: $6.51
Price in other shops:
To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)Paramount; Release date: 2007-05-08; DVD
Best price: $7.93
Price in other shops:
HouseboatParamount; Release date: 2002-11-05; DVD
Best price: $4.55
Price in other shops:
El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-01-29; DVD
Best price: $15.06
Price in other shops: