'Cause :
-it is an Epic(MGM's Last Gasp)
-grand actors !
-Alex North's Score
-Holds up pretty Well
-Tony Quinn
-Leo McKern
-Frank Finley
-the Werner thing : w\Orthodoxy clashing(T.DeChardin in real life !)
...and the *IDEALISM of giving away BILLIONS to the starving Masses !
ETC.
-i could add there is HUMANITY written all over; for example,when Lakota goes in to see the Jewish family,he handles it w\a aplomb.Identifying w\them he breaks out in a Hebrew prayer !
...and there is more later(big climax)-and at the beginning of the movie.
I was shocked at the low rating, the movie is incredible.
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur2533227/ratings
www.kittysafe.net
Incredible truly;
extraordinary INDEED ~
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I liked the movie a lot, mostly for it's inside look at Rome & the Vatican. But, the idea of giving away billions to feed the starving masses is a flawed idea....you may have the money ready, but if the extra food the starving people need doesn't exist in storehouses or grain elevators, money itself won't do the impoverished much good if there's nothing to purchase. Farmers don't intentionally overproduce millions of bushels of rice or wheat if they don't expect that there's a legitimate demand for it within 3 years.
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