The Pride and the Passion (1957)

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Writers:

C.S. Forester (novel)
Edna Anhalt (screen story and screenplay) ...

Release Date:

10 July 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War

Plot:

The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the...

Plot Keywords:

French | Spain | Cannon | British | Napoleonic

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Cary Grant	...	Anthony
Frank Sinatra	...	Miguel
Sophia Loren	...	Juana
Theodore Bikel	...	General Jouvet
John Wengraf	...	Sermaine
Jay Novello	...	Ballinger
José Nieto	...	Carlos (as Jose Nieto)
Carlos Larrañaga	...	Jose (as Carlos Larranaga)
Philip Van Zandt	...	Vidal
Paco El Laberinto	...	Manolo (as Paco el Laberinto)
Julián Ugarte	...	Enrique
Félix de Pomés	...	Bishop
Carlos Casaravilla	...	Leonardo
Juan Olaguivel	...	Ramon
Nana DeHerrera	...	Maria (as Nana de Herrera)

Also Known As:

Orgueil et passion (Belgium: French title) (France) [fr]
Orgullo y pasión (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Stolz und Leidenschaft (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Gurur ve ihtiras (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Orgoglio e passione (Italy) [it]
Orgulho e Paixão (Portugal) [pt]
Stolthed og lidenskab (Denmark) [da]
Stolthet och passion (Sweden) [sv]
Trots en hartstocht (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Ylpeys ja intohimo (Finland) [fi]
Yperifaneia kai pathos (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

Germany:125 min | USA:132 min | Argentina:133 min | UK:132 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

UK:PG | Finland:K-12 | West Germany:12 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Ciudad Encantada, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Company:

Stanley Kramer Productions

Trivia:

By all accounts, Frank Sinatra was at his most obstreperous throughout the making of this film. Among other things, he refused to use the car supplied him by the studio, insisting upon having his Ford Thunderbird flown all the way to Spain at the studio's expense. In addition, he almost caused an international incident when he hung a banner from his hotel room window reading "Franco is a Fink", referring to Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco. In hindsight, Sinatra referred to the whole experience as "underwhelming".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Juana is bathing in the River she can clearly be seen to be wearing a swimsuit.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (1973) (TV)

You may fire when ready Cary!

During the Napoleonic Wars, British naval captain Cary Grant and Spanish freedom fighters Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra and a real cast of thousands try to keep an enormous cannon from the evil French occupiers. Lots of impressive scenes with hundreds and sometimes thousands of extras and lots of mules and rope to pull that gun over the countryside with the French Army in hot pursuit. The movie is visually impressive; a knife fight amongst windmills, great battle sequences, large epic shots of hundreds and thousands of people all set against the beautiful Spanish landscape (where the movie was filmed). The problem is the actors. Grant is the best, but too stoic; Loren is beautiful, but too fey; and Sinatra is just miscast, his Spanish accent awful and totally unbelievable as the passionate Loren's love interest. Worth watching for the spectacle and the great scenes and scenery, but the personal soap opera between Cary, Frank and Loren puts a damper on the fun. I wish another actor had played Miguel, Sinatra's character - how about Anthony Quinn, Ricardo Montalban, Fernando Lamas, or even mature character actors like Cesar Romero or Gilbert Roland? I could never believe Sophia was interested in Frank.