
Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and 'charge a dollar from every Catholic in the world' as the ransom. Shot in 1975, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981, and finally completed in 2009 from a rediscovered, unfinished print.... (Full plot summary below)
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Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and 'charge a dollar from every Catholic in the world' as the ransom. Shot in 1975, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981, and finally completed in 2009 from a rediscovered, unfinished print.
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| Movie ChambersPaul Chambers"Gone With the Pope" may have a cult audience appeal. I just didn't have the patience to go along with this nonsense. |
| Village VoiceKarina LongworthIt's gloriously, hilariously offensive, including all manner of racist and sexist jokes and one sequence of WTF? grotesquerie worthy of John Waters. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfFinds unmistakable personality in the midst of a potential mess, making what should've been a disposable curiosity into a formidable continuation of the "Massacre Mafia Style" aesthetic. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff Meyers..in the pantheon of "bat-shit crazy WTF cinema," Gone with the Pope ranks with the best of the worst. |
| User ReviewMichael MDuke Mitchell's long lost and finally completed 1970's religious gangster epic is unlike any movie I've ever seen before. Mitchell plays an ex-con who decides to sail a yacht to Rome, so that he can kidnap the Pope in exchange for the ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world." Academy-award winning editor Bob Murawski discovered the film (originally shot in 1975) in Mitchell's son's garage and pieced it together over the last 15 years. This newly discovered gem is an instant grindhouse exploitation classic. |
| User ReviewKen SThis isn't "good" but it's fun "bad" and that sometimes counts for something. If they ever make a sequel Torgo has to play the Pope. |
| User ReviewJussi MAika erikoinen tapaus. Leffa kuvattiin vuonna -75. Jälkituotanto jäi kesken. Ohjaaja/käsikirjoittaja/pääosan esittäjä kuoli 1981. Leffa unohtui vuosikymmeniksi kunnes se löydettiin 2009. Vuonna 2010 kuvatusta materiaalista editoitiin leffa lopulliseen muotoonsa. Suht katsottava vaikka osa näyttelijöistä aika tönkköjä. |
| User ReviewIan RJust odd... a strange, strange time capsule of I don't know what, but it's good that it exists... |
| User ReviewKenny MThe Oscar winning editor of 'The Hurt Locker' spent 15 years completing this unreleased Grindhouse movie from 1975. Its about an ex-con who kidnaps the Pope and demands a ransom of 'a dollar from every Catholic in the world.' Watching the completed film at a Midnight screening, I was let down. Some funny lines and bizarre moments doesn't make up for the fact that it essentially drags. |