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How Long Is “Christopher Columbus”?

Name: Christopher Columbus
Genre: history, biography
Released: 1949-10-12
Duration: 104 min
Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond

1h 44m runtime

19491h 44mhistory • biography

History film with a runtime of 104 minutes, released in 1949. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 44m

Minutes104

One SittingYes

With Break1h 56m

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Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top miniatures impersonating the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria (punctuated by rumbles of mutiny--no, not "rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny") Columbus reaches the New World. Though obviously filmed on an extravagant budget (Technicolor was still a rare commodity in 1949), the British Christopher Columbus has less going for it than the 1939 Porky Pig cartoon Christopher Columbus Jr.. Filmgoers stayed away in droves, as they would when the movie industry "rediscovered" Columbus for a brace of disastrous multimillion-dollar films in 1992.

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Runtime1h 44m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break1h 56m

Movie Facts

Release DateOctober 12, 1949

Runtime1h 44m

LanguageEnglish

Genreshistory, biography

DirectorDavid MacDonald

ProducerA. Frank Bundy, Frank F. Bundy

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