Flying Padre
| Flying Padre | |
|---|---|
 A scene from Flying Padre | |
| Directed by | Stanley Kubrick |
| Produced by | Burton Benjamin |
| Written by | Stanley Kubrick |
| Starring | Fred Stadmueller |
| Narrated by | Bob Hite |
| Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
| Cinematography | Stanley Kubrick |
| Edited by | Isaac Kleinerman |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Flying Padre is a 1951 short subject black-and-white documentary film. It is the second picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, after Day of the Fight. The film is nine minutes long.
Story
The subject of Flying Padre is a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico, Father Fred Stadtmuller. Because his 4000-square mile parish is so large, he uses a Piper Cub airplane (named the "Spirit of St. Joseph") to travel from one isolated settlement to another. The film shows him providing spiritual guidance, giving sermons at funerals, and serving as an impromptu air ambulance by flying a sick child and his mother to hospital.
Production
After Kubrick sold his first short film, the self-financed Day of the Fight, to RKO in 1951 for $4000 (pocketing a $100 profit),[1] the company advanced the 23-year-old filmmaker money to make a documentary short for their Pathe Screenliner series. Flying Padre was the result.[2]
In an interview in 1969, Kubrick referred to Flying Padre as "silly".[1]
The film is narrated by CBS announcer Bob Hite.[3]
Notes
- 1 2 Joseph Gelmis "An Interview With Stanley Kubrick (1969), excerpted from The Film Director as Superstar New York: Doubleday, 1970.
- ↑ "Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker - Biography/Chronology
- ↑ Hite was an announcer and anchor for CBS from 1944-1979, during which time he was announcer for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Prior to joining CBS, Hite was at WXYZ, Detroit, where he narrated the old radio shows such as The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and The Shadow. IMDB Bob Hite (II)
External links
- Flying Padre at the Internet Movie Database
- Flying Padre at the TCM Movie Database
- Flying Padre at Kubrick: Master Filmmaker
- Flying Padre at Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide
- Flying Padre (Translated from French to English by Google)
- The Kubrick Site