[Pyro7480]

Movie website: Cristiada

Starring:
Andy Garcia
Eva Longoria
Peter O'Toole
Eduardo Verastegui of Bella fame
Nestor Carbonell from Lost
Ruben Blades

Directed by Dean Wright, visual effects supervisor for the first two Chronicles of Narnia movies, and visual effects producer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King

Original Music by James Horner of Titanic, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Mask of Zorro, and Apollo 13 fame

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Frantzie]

I thought Peter O’Toole died?? I must be thinking of Bob Crane.

[Army Air Corps]

Sounds like an interesting film.

[the invisib1e hand]

It’s probably a fine movie, but I’ve walked out of two movies recently — both shown at church — because of my distaste for graphic violence.

[Zhang Fei]

The Mexican caudillo of the time initiated priest hunts - kill-on-sight orders against Catholic priests.

[Huck]

Peter O’Toole is still alive? Who knew?

[Straight Vermonter]

Father Miguel Pro is one of my personal heroes. We could use men like him in the priesthood today.

An assassination attempt by bombing against Álvaro Obregón (which only wounded the ex-president) in November 1927 provided the state with a pretext to capture Fr. Miguel Pro and his brothers Humberto and Roberto. A young engineer who was involved and confessed his part in the assassination testified the Pro brothers were not involved. [7] Miguel and his brothers were taken to the Detective Inspector's Office in Mexico City. On November 13, 1927, President Calles gave orders to have Pro executed under the pretext of the assassination, but in reality for defying the virtual outlawing of Catholicism. [5] Calles had the execution meticulously photographed, and the newspapers throughout the country carried them on the front page the following day. Presumably, Calles thought that the sight of the pictures would frighten the Cristero rebels who were fighting against his troops, particularly in the state of Jalisco. However, they had the opposite effect. Fr. Pro and his brothers were visited by Generals Roberto Cruz and Palomera Lopez around 11 p.m. on November 22, 1927. The next day, as Fr. Pro walked from his cell to the courtyard and the firing squad, he blessed the soldiers, knelt and briefly prayed quietly. Declining a blindfold, he faced his executioners with a crucifix in one hand and a rosary in the other and held his arms out in imitation of the crucified Christ and shouted out, "May God have mercy on you! May God bless you! Lord, Thou knowest that I am innocent! With all my heart I forgive my enemies!" [5] Before the firing squad were ordered to shoot, Pro raised his arms in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of the Cristeros, "Viva Cristo Rey!" -"Long live Christ the King!" [5]. When the initial shots of the firing squad failed to kill him, a soldier shot him point blank. People lined the streets for miles when his body was transported from the prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Pro

[denydenydeny]

Interesting. It was a little-known conflict, but the viciousness of the secularists against the Christians made a big impression on Mexico-born William F. Buckley and IMO strongly informed his eventual political beliefs, a.k.a. the modern conservative movement. A fascinating butterfly-effect thing.

[mware]

Peter O Toole is still alive????

[Tax-chick]

Is there any indication of a release date? I looked a bit, but I don’t go to Facebook and I didn’t see anything on the film site link.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Didn’t Henry Fonda play a similar role in THE FUGITIVE back in the 1930s?

[BlackElk]

Thanks for the heads up. It looks like justice may be done on film for a change. Viva Cristo Rey!

[rhinohunter]

What!!! Peter O’Toole is still alive???

[trisham]

Wow. That looks great!

[PJ-Comix]

So when is this movie going to be released? This is like a year later and it still hasn’t appeared in theaters.