The Scarlet and the Black (DVD & Blu-Ray) ( Scarlatto e nero ) ( The Vatican Pimpernel (The Scarlet & the Black) )

The Scarlet and the Black (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Scarlatto e nero
Alternate Title: The Vatican Pimpernel (The Scarlet & the Black)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
135 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jerry London

Written By:
J.P. Gallagher
David Butler

Actors:
Gregory Peck ..... Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Christopher Plummer ..... Col. Herbert Kappler
John Gielgud ..... Pope Pius XII
Raf Vallone ..... Father Vittorio
Kenneth Colley ..... Capt. Hirsch
Walter Gotell ..... Gen. Max Helm
Barbara Bouchet ..... Minna Kappler
Julian Holloway ..... Alfred West
Angelo Infanti ..... Father Morosini
Olga Karlatos ..... Francesca Lombardo
Michael Byrne ..... Reinhard Beck
T.P. McKenna ..... Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler
Vernon Dobtcheff ..... Count Langenthal
John Terry ..... Lt. Jack Manning
Peter Burton ..... Sir D'Arcy Osborne

Synopsis:

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian Resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story.

An Irish Vatican Monsignor, Hugh O'Flaherty, tries to save Allied prisoners in World War II by setting up an escape and safe-house network. The German S.S. officer in charge of Rome suspects his involvement and does all he can to break the network. At the end of the War the Monsignor uses the network to smuggle out the wife and children of the hated S.S. chief to safety.

Based on J. P. Gallagher's book The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican (published in 1967), this movie tells the story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real life Irish Catholic priest who saved thousands of Jews and Allied POWs in Nazi-occupied Rome.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 31 October, 2012.

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