Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Diagonaldi Very well executed

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

deacon_blues-3 I really liked this story of one man's awakening of moral conscience to the evil nature of his complicity with the Borgias in 16th Century Italy. I haven't checked on it level of historical accuracy, but then again, a good story is its own justification, whether it's mostly fact or mostly fiction.Power is his usual magnetic self as Orsini/Zoppo, a peasant who has studied art with the masters of Padua but has relegated his artistic talents to the status of a hobby in favor of serving the political and military ambitions of Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucretia.Felix Alymer is most captivating as the wise and gentle Verano. He becomes the key to the reclamation of Zoppo's soul, which has been corrupted by the Borgias from its original vision of truth and beauty.Wanda Hendrix is quite convincing as the pure-hearted Madonna Verano, who loves Zoppo but remains constant and faithful to her elderly husband until his death in battle with the Borgias.My only disappointment is that the producers of this film did not spring for full Technicolor treatment, since the on-location sets in Italy and the elaborate period costumes would have been truly awesome in their full, rich colors! Tisk, risk! What a shame!

dhitman My opinion is that Prince of Foxes could have been as popular as Captain From Castile if it would have been produced in color. The actors were wonderful and Everet Sloan as Belli was perfect. Could there be a better Cesare Borgia than Orson Welles playing everyone against everyone else? The locations and background shots added to the authenticity of the era and personalities portrayed. The shots within the hall with the tapestries on the walls were lost in the black and white production. This movie stoked my interest in Italian history of the Borgia period and Italian history in general. It is a classic story of Italy buried by cheap producers. I wonder how it would look colorized?

marjoriem I love this movie! It is great swashbuckling fun. The only thing that I really don't like about it is Wanda Hendrix who looks utterly wrong in all the gorgeous Renaissance settings -- too all- American, too obviously a Hollywood starlet. They could probably have found any number of Italian actresses who would have been perfect. Note, in reply to first comment: it wasn't Andorra that stood in for Citta del Monte, it was San Marino (a tiny independent hill town/country completely surrounded by Italy). One scene was filmed in Siena -- but others were filmed in other locations around Italy -- San Gimignano, for one. And also of course in studios in Cinecitta.

ilprofessore-1 One of the first grand scale Hollywood historical melodramas shot entirely on location throughout Italy and at Cinecitta in 1948-9 only a few years after the Second World War, this film benefits from its believable historical settings. Superbly composed and photographed in B&W by one of Zanuck's best cinematographers, Leon Shamroy, and costumed lavishly by the great Vittorio Nino Novarese, the visual aspects of this film add an unusual authenticity to the story. In addition, we have some grand theatrical acting from such classic scene-stealers as the great Katina Paxinao from Greece, England's Felix Alymer (Polonius to Olivier's Hamlet) and America's own wunderkind Orson Welles reunited with his Bernstein from Citizen Kane, Everett Sloane. (Watching Sloane's performance in this film one can only regret that he did not play Iago to Orson's Othello.) The beautiful but rather wooden Wanda Hendrix as Camilla Verana can't compete in this superb ensemble, all directed masterfully by the underestimated Henry King, but the overall effect is magnificent. Who said you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Not if the sow is Italian!