Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)

Buy This Item Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 8-28-2008     This great swashbuckler is completely underrated! Made in the style of the 1940s adventures with Tyrone Power, this film is fun and exciting and I definitely recommend it. And the cast! It's so cool to see the great Brando pass the proverbial torch to next generation actors Benecio Del Toro and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rachel Ward is excellent as Queen Isabella and Robert Davi is superb. People expected to get a serious drama about Columbus but what they got was much more fun and for this people complain? The shots are beautiful, filmed on the open seas, and the adventure is non-stop. I watched it again this this Columbus Day- what a treat! Reader Reviews C. Columbus: The Discovery DVD This movie is probably the most historically accurate film that I've seen, so far, on Christopher Columbus. Contrary to what you might have been taught in elementary school the intelligentsia did not think the world was flat. They thought the world was round and was approximately 25,000 miles in circumference at the equator. Columbus thought the circumference at the equator was more like 18,000 miles. (25,000 is correct) Since Marco Polo had traveled by land to Cathay(China) going East for about 12,000 miles, all he would have to do was sail West for 6,000 miles and voila he'd arrive in the Indies. Well, he was wrong, but got lucky and hit the New World instead. I think it is pretty arrogant to say that Columbus "discovered" the New World. One would think the Indios did that. Anyhow it is a good movie. Tom Selleck plays the King of Aragon, Marlon Brando gives a credible performance as the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada. Warning some bare breast of the native females, but tastefully done. Recommended for students that want a historically accurate version of the discovery of the New world. Not the typical PAP they teach. Gunner March, 2008

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) Available from Amazon Price: $14.98 Updated on 8-28-2008.

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