The Scarlet and The Black

The Scarlet and the Black is one of the outstanding films starring Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer. This made for TV movie is far better than many extravagant Nazi Holocaust movies. What makes The Scarlet and the Black different? It?s the true spirit of human virtue that triumph in this true story which leaves you exuberant rather than haunt your dreams with grim images of suffering and brutality depicted in many holocaust movies.

Cast

• Gregory Peck - Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
• Christopher Plummer - Colonel Herbert Kappler
• John Gielgud - Pope Pius XII
• Raf Vallone - Father Vittorio
• Kenneth Colley - Capt. Hirsch
• Walter Gotell - Gen. Max Helm
• Barbara Bouchet - Minna Kappler
• Julian Holloway - Alfred West
• Angelo Infanti - Father Morosini