Flying Padre
Flying Padre | |
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RKO Radio Pictures | |
Release date | March 23, 1951 |
Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Flying Padre is a 1951
Synopsis
The subject of Flying Padre is a
The film shows two days in his daily life, with the Reverend providing spiritual guidance, saying a Funeral Mass, and other glimpses of his life such as his breakfast routine at the parish house. His days include a funeral service for a ranch hand, and counseling of two young parishioners who have been quarrelling. In the climax of the film. the "Flying Padre" also operated as an impromptu
Cast
- Bob Hite as himself - Narrator (voice)
- Reverend Fred Stadtmueller as himself
- Pedro as himself
Production
After Kubrick sold his first short film, the self-financed Day of the Fight, to RKO in 1951 for $4,000 (pocketing a $100 profit),[2] the company advanced the 23-year-old filmmaker money to make a follow-up project, a documentary short for their Pathe Screenliner series which specialized in short human-interest documentaries. He originally wanted to call the film Sky Pilot but the studio did not like the title.[1][3]
Flying Padre is narrated by CBS announcer Bob Hite. [N 1]
Reception
In an interview in 1969, Kubrick referred to Flying Padre as a "silly thing".[2] Flying Padre, however, was an important landmark in his budding career as a filmmaker. "It was at this point that I formally quit my job at Look to work full time on filmmaking," Kubrick stated in an interview."[1]
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c Stafford, Jeff. "Articles: 'Flying Padre' (1951)." TCM, 2019. Retrieved: June 13, 2019.
- ^ a b Gelmis, Joseph. "An Interview With Stanley Kubrick (1969), excerpted from The Film Director as Superstar, 1970, p. 293.
- ^ "Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker - Biography/Chronology." prodigy.com, July 12, 2009.
- ^ "Bob Hite (II)." IMDB, 2019. Retrieved: June 13, 2019.
Bibliography
- Gelmis, Joseph. The Film Director as Superstar. New York: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN 978-0-38502-229-3.
External links
- Flying Padre at IMDb
- Flying Padre at the TCM Movie Database
- Flying Padre at Kubrick: Master Filmmaker[permanent dead link]
- Flying Padre at Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide
- Flying Padre (Translated from French to English by Google)
- The Kubrick Site