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The scenery is superb, the acting good: yet The Cardinal suggests neither the crises of the period, nor the anguished religious struggles it seeks to portray within the Catholic soul. Though the treatment is reverential, it lacks spiritual fiber.

Otto Preminger has successfully put on film a long, absorbing drama about a young Boston Irishman who becomes an ecclesiastical prince of the Roman Catholic Church.

Tarzan of the Apes takes us about as far into African anthropology as The Cardinal does into the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church. A pity, since the theme might have made an interesting film.

The cast, as a whole, is well chosen, to the point that the actors manage to overcome the holes in a story that too many times pretends to be sublime and ends up being ridiculous. [Full Review in Spanish]