The Miracle (1959 film)
| The Miracle | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Irving Rapper |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Written by |
Karl Vollmöller Frank Butler Jean Rouverol |
| Starring |
Carroll Baker Roger Moore |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Edited by | Frank Bracht |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
121 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million |
The Miracle is a 1959 film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore. It is a remake of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film The Miracle, which was in turn a production of the 1911 pantomime play The Miracle written by Karl Vollmöller and directed by Max Reinhardt.
The 1959 film version for Warner Bros. was shot in Technirama and Technicolor, with an original score by Elmer Bernstein.
Teresa (Carroll Baker), a postulant at the convent of Miraflores in Salamanca, Spain, is an orphan taken in by the sisters there. She enjoys the convent life, despite being a handful for her superiors. She sings worldly love songs to the other postulants and reads secular stories and plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Still, she has a lively devotion to Christ and to His Blessed Mother. A statue of the Madonna, in fact, is held in high regard by Teresa as she goes about her duties.
When the British march through the town on their way to battle Napoleon, Teresa is drawn to a handsome captain (Roger Moore) she sees while he waters his horse. After a defeat at the Battle of Salamanca the British regiment limps back to the convent which the Mother Superior offers as a hospital for the wounded. Here Teresa learns more about the young captain who had attracted her interest. He is Michael Stuart, he finds Teresa fascinating, and before long he and Teresa find themselves falling in love.
Recovered, the soldiers march out of the convent grounds to be billeted in the nearby town of Miraflores. The seventeen-year-old Teresa is filled with desire for Michael and begins to question her calling. Returning to duty, Michael asks Teresa to marry him; she hesitates, but runs after him. They kiss and Michael proposes that they meet at the town's inn if she wants to leave the religious life and marry him.
...
Wikipedia