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- Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
- Using a letter of introduction from Queen Isabella's former confessor, Christopher Columbus gains access to the Spanish court where he tries to convince authorities of the practicality of his proposed voyage to reach to Far East by sailing west. Court intrigue and the efforts of Francisco de Bobadilla, whose financial interests would be hurt by Columbus' success, are roadblocks to the voyage, but the navigator perseveres and ultimately prevails.
- I'd always pictured CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS as an adventurous young man, but here he's played by the very stoic FREDRIC MARCH in the prime of middle-age. Why is it March always seemed too old for all of his major roles, beginning with ANTHONY ADVERSE.<br/><br/>This is a very respectable version of the Columbus story, but a bit plodding and dull when it should come to life with more vigor. There's an almost textbook quality about the script that takes forty-five minutes to set Columbus on his voyage after much confrontational verbal exercises at the Spanish court with Queen Isabella (FLORENCE ELDRIDGE) and FRANCIS L. SULLIVAN as a nobleman who opposes the voyage. Strangely enough, this portion of the film is the most interesting.<br/><br/>Production values are splendid but there's a muted quality to the color of the TCM print I viewed. FREDRIC MARCH is competent in the title role, but never quite assumes the mantle of the courageous and determined leader of men with his daring new ideas. It's easy to see why his crewmen become skeptical and suspicious midway during the voyage. Their growing doubts are understandable after so many days at sea.<br/><br/>Summing up: Interesting enough but would have been a more successful film with a more vital performer in the title role rather than the uninspired portrayal of its tired looking leading man whose work here is rather pallid.<br/><br/>For all the attempts to bring it to life, it remains a "flat" version rather than a fully rounded one.
- If you really want to make history boring, I advise you to see this epic 1949 flop.<br/><br/>I imagine this misery was originally in black and white. Attempting to colorize it completely destroyed the texture.<br/><br/>Fred March is the title role is totally colorless here as well as the writing.<br/><br/>When the ships are at sea, the writing is so monotonous and it's only mid-September 1492. You can actually start rooting for October 12th to come. When it finally does, Columbus encounters new world people who are as dull as the picture is.<br/><br/>When he talks about a hanging, he brings in the name Haman. Were the writers suspicious that Columbus was really Jewish? At least, they could have played up that angle to make the film more exciting.<br/><br/>His enemies in Spain never relented and Columbus was charged with thievery and ineptness and was brought back in shackles in a scene similar to Charlton Heston's Moses coming in to the kingdom in shackles when it was discovered that he was the deliverer.<br/><br/>Angry, that Ferdinand and Isabella have decided to keep him in Spain, he angrily retorts: "My name will be long remembered long after they're both dead!" He walks off and the film mercifully ends.<br/><br/>1492 also marked the inquisition of the Jews from Spain. We should have also inquired why this abominable film was ever made.
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