The Agony and the ecstasy [Motion picture]
Contributor(s): Stone, Irving. Agony and the ecstasy | International Classics, inc. [from old catalog] | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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TextPublisher: [n.p.] International Classics. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1965Description: p. 136 min. sd. color. 70 mmSubject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- DramaLOC classification: PZ 3 | .S76 1961
Magnetic stereo sound track. Color by Deluxe. Todd-AO.
Issued also in 35 mm. LC has 35 mm. print.
Based on the novel of the same title by Irving Stone.
CREDITS: Producer and director, Carol Reed; story and screenplay, Philip Dunne; music, Alex North; director of photography, Leon Shamroy; editor, Samuel E. Beetley. CAST: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo.
SUMMARY: A drama dealing with the life of Michelangelo with emphasis on the four-year period during which he labored on the ceiling frescoes for the Sistine Chapel and on the continuing battle of wills between the artistically arrogant Michelangelo and his equally stubborn master, the soldier-Pontiff Julius.
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