St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

• Patrick Bergin as Saint Patrick • Malcolm McDowell as Quentin • Alan Bates as Calpornius, Patrick's father • Susannah York as Concessa, Patrick's mother • Luke Griffin as Young Patrick • Eamonn Owens as Benignus • Christopher McHallem as Auxilius • Michael Caven as Iserninus • Stephen Brennan as Briain ==Production==

The film was shot on location in Ireland. and continued this into later life: "if you do the movements for that you are essentially doing a kind of yoga". Supporting actor Alan Bates was paid £30,000 for two days' work in March 1999; he thought poorly of the film but used his salary to buy a Renault he coveted. ==Release==

The film premiered on Fox Family Channel on March 12, 2000. ==Reception==

Variety praised Bergin ("though it appears that even he is straining to keep a straight face through some of the more fantastical sequences"), and wrote that McDowell, Bates and York "bring some much-needed dignity to the production". It summed up: "An impressive cast and fabulous locales can’t elevate this well meaning but completely absurd costumer from years of certain servitude in parochial school auditoriums." Bates's biographer Donald Spoto says, "Drenched in saccharine piety and utterly lacking in historical accuracy, the television movie presented Patrick mostly as a sideshow miracle worker." ==See also==