Flying Padre
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A scene from Flying Padre
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| Directed by | Stanley Kubrick |
| Produced by | Burton Benjamin |
| Written by | Stanley Kubrick |
| Starring | Fred Stadmueller |
| Narrated by | Bob Hite |
| Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
| Cinematography | Stanley Kubrick |
| Edited by | Isaac Kleinerman |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Release date
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March 23, 1951 |
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Running time
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9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Flying Padre is a 1951 short subject black-and-white documentary film. It is the debut picture directed by Stanley Kubrick The film is nine minutes long.
The subject of Flying Padre is a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico, Father Fred Stadtmueller. Because his 4000-square mile parish is so large, he uses a Piper Cub airplane (named the "Spirit of St. Joseph") to travel from one isolated settlement to another. The film shows him providing spiritual guidance, saying a funeral Mass, and serving as an impromptu air ambulance by flying a sick child and his mother to hospital.
After Kubrick sold his first short film, the self-financed Day of the Fight, to RKO in 1951 for $4000 (pocketing a $100 profit), the company advanced the 23-year-old filmmaker money to make a documentary short for their Pathe Screenliner series. Flying Padre was the result.
In an interview in 1969, Kubrick referred to Flying Padre as "silly".
The film is narrated by CBS announcer Bob Hite.
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