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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) -- The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded

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Director:
John Glen
Writers (WGA):
Mario Puzo (story)
John Briley (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 August 1992 (USA) more
Plot:
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Mario Puzo Dies At 78
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 5 July 1999)

User Comments:
Fortunately for this movie, they don't give "zero" an option as marks out of ten. more (13 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Marlon Brando ... Tomas de Torquemada

Tom Selleck ... King Ferdinand

Georges Corraface ... Christopher Columbus (as George Corraface)

Rachel Ward ... Queen Isabella

Robert Davi ... Martin Pinzon

Catherine Zeta-Jones ... Beatriz (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
Oliver Cotton ... Harana

Benicio Del Toro ... Alvaro Harana (as Benicio del Toro)
Mathieu Carrière ... King John (as Mathieu Carriere)
Manuel de Blas ... Vicente Pinzon
Glyn Grain ... De La Cosa
Peter Guinness ... Fra Perez
Nigel Terry ... Roldan
Nitzan Sharron ... Benjamin

Steven Hartley ... Terreros
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cristóbal Colón: el descubrimiento (Spain)
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
UK | USA | Spain
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | Germany:12 (f) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 (certificate #31900)
Filming Locations:
Atlantic Ocean more

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Trivia:
The project was concurrently developed with Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) to be released on time for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. more
Quotes:
Christopher Columbus: [to the Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor] I recall our blessed Lord said: here is a new commandment I give to you. That you love one another as I loved you. Surely it is not blasphemy to take that message to the shores of Africa or across the ocean sea. more
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Version of "Christopher Columbus" (1985) more

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Fortunately for this movie, they don't give "zero" an option as marks out of ten., 12 February 2003
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Author: Victor Field from London, England

The 500th anniversary of C. Columbus's voyage to what he thought was India was deemed worthy of two major motion pictures (no, "Carry On Columbus" doesn't count). The trouble is that at the time there was much general apathy in the world as a whole about the whole thing, as evidenced by the lack of box office success for both this and the comparatively better "1492: Conquest Of Paradise" - neither was much to write home about, but "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" was the worse of the two by far, and it's fortunate that Alexander Salkind will be remembered for "Superman" instead of this (it was his last production).

In pretty much every department from casting (Tom Selleck as the King of Spain. Why?) through writing ("Admiral Colon, you have won our respect and our admiration. Now where's my gold?" Note: In spite of the title, the legendary seafarer is correctly referred to as Cristobal Colon throughout... except when someone calls him "Christopher Columbus" at one point) to "special" effects, on top of an ending that leaves a really bad taste in the mouth - we cut from the misery left behind in the New World to our hero exulting as Cliff Eidelman's wildly over-the-top music bursts forth - the movie's embarrassing, shoddy and offensive. Not that the other Columbus movie didn't have its own faults (the exceptional dullness is only one of its problems) but at least Ridley Scott and Co. studied it with a bit more depth than this tosh.

Funny how Catherine Zeta-Jones never mentions this one.

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