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starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Horderndirected by: Richard Loncraine
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302530131
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630253013X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: November 11, 1998
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 47589
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1982
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Rating:  - MONTY PYTHON ALERT! Cuddly Michael Palin's "The Missionary"
The Rev.Charles Fortescue has returned to Victorian England after ten years among the natives of Colonial Africa.He arrives home with the intention of marriage to his fiancee,Deborah Fitzbank,a proper twit airhead who has an extreme obsessive/compulsive disorder of organizing things! No sooner does Fortescue settle in that The Bishop of London commissions him to work among "the ladies of the night;" and so begins the next tongue-in-cheek,typically British-humored chapter in dear Missionary Fortescue's ... Read More
Rating:  - Full Screen
The information Amazon gives on this DVD does not stipulate whether it is wide-screen or full screen. I purchased on the assumption that it was the theatric release ratio but it is the full screen version. If this is what you want, fine, but otherwise watch out. I am not giving a review because full screen movies are not worth watching.
Rating:  - Strange, funny, with good performances, by Palin, et. al.
This movie, about a missionary, who comes back from Africa, and is about to get married to his highly organised [British spelling] fiance, is given an assignment by his bishop, to "convert" the "fallen women" (prostitutes) of England. With funny performances by Palin, Maggie Smith (stunningly attractive in an aristocratic way), Phoebe Nicholls, as his future wife (you have to see the movie to see if he marries her), and others, presents a wickedly funny look at a man who seeks to do good, in the face ... Read More
Rating:  - The cleric and the working girls
Sometimes, life among the "uncivilized" is less taxing.
Michael Palin is the Reverend Charles Fortescue, an Anglican cleric recalled to England in 1906 after spending the previous ten years in the bush among African tribesmen. Charles happily anticipates marriage to his sweetheart of long standing, Deborah (Phoebe Nicholls), and, perhaps, a posting as the vicar of a country church in the south of England. If he only knew, poor devil, he might have elected to stay on the Dark Continent.
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Rating: - A Missionary With a Difference
Michael Palin plays a missionary who has just returned after ten years in Africa. He has a fiancé waiting and has high hopes for a good position.
But all does not go as planned. He keeps running into an intriguing woman, his fiancé is obsessed with filing, and his church wants him to tackle the growing problem of "fallen women" working in the docklands.
Faced with the task of setting up a mission in London, he must find funding and souls to save. But to do either he finds that he ... Read More
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