Directed by David MacDonald
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
British Technicolor production follows Columbus from the courts of Spain to the islands of the Caribbean. In Spain, he must convince the Queen and a Royal Committee that the earth is round and that by sailing west he will actually end up east. The aristocrats are skeptical but Columbus has got the local clergy on his side who can't resist an opportunity to convert a new world of heathens and get some gold in the process. Columbus sails the ocean blue, overcoming a long voyage and mutinous crew. The islanders are friendly but naive, trading their gold for broken crockery. Greed gets the best of the Spaniards and Columbus is arrested and shipped back to Spain. Interesting if plodding account of the explorer that tends to play like one of those movies you are forced to watch for a school project. It doesn't help that the Technicolor on the TCM print is a brown, washed-out muck.
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