- Actors: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Harold Vermilyea
- Directors: Irving Pichel
- Writers: Ben Hecht, DeWitt Bodeen, Quentin Reynolds, Russell Janney
- Producers: Jesse L. Lasky, Walter MacEwen
- Format: Black & White, NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Republic Pictures
- VHS Release Date: Sep 23 2003
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6302842018
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4.0 out of 5 stars
like molasses, a little slow but very sweet,
By Alejandra Vernon "artist & illustrator" (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Miracle of the Bells (VHS Tape)
Based on Russell Janey's novel, the Ben Hecht/Quentin Reynolds script for this film is sometimes sappy and often uneven, but it's also a nice sentimental story, told in flashback, by William Dunnigan (played in a somber manner by Fred McMurray), a press agent who was never a very happy guy, and is burying the woman he loved (but was never able to tell her so).The real reason to watch this film is to see Alida Valli play Joan of Arc, in a "film within a film" segment. She is luminous and incredibly beautiful, and would have made a terrific Joan. Coincidentally, the lavish "Joan of Arc" production starring Ingrid Bergman was released the same year as this film. Another reason to view "The Miracle of the Bells" is to see Frank Sinatra, skinny as a rail, in the unlikely part of a soft spoken priest; this was five years before his success in "From Here to Eternity", and he is surprisingly good, but far from great. He sings "Ever Homeward", a cappella, as he sits among the grave stones; there's a lot of gloomy aspects to the film, one of them being that the setting is a poor coal mining town...though it all has a nice pay-off.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Memorable Movie,
By Rebecca (Toccoa, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miracle of Bells (VHS Tape)
Orginally, I saw this movie about ten years ago and it really left an impression on me. It brilliantly grabs the viewer's heart...You would have to be dead not to be touched by this film. I loved it and I'm getting ready to purchase a copy for my 15-year-old daughter to watch. I've shared with her many other classics I've valued in my lifetime, i.e. Jane Eyre (Orson Wells), Wuthering Heights, and Alice Adams. I hope she will treasure the classics as much as I do.
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Feel-Bad Christmas Movie,
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This review is from: Miracle of Bells (VHS Tape)
The first time I saw "The Miracle of the Bells" was a New Year's Eve party in 1980, and man, it was a bring down. Here is a somewhat nasty Fred MacMurray mourning the loss of Valli (from "The Third Man"), who had only just completed filming her Joan of Arc movie, the movie that would have catapulted this obscure nobody into a major star, it seems, but fate would have it otherwise, since she up and died. Frank Sinatra plays against type big time as a gentle young priest. I really disliked this movie, and I bet you would too.
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