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A silent biblical epic that opens with an orgy! It could only be a Cecil B DeMille production. The King of Kings was seen by an incredible 500 million people between 1927 and the 1961 […]
Cecil B DeMille’s 1923 American silent religious epic film The Ten Commandments is told in two parts: the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story of two brothers (Richard Dix, Rod La Rocque). Director Cecil B DeMille’s sprawling 1923 silent […]
Hedy Lamarr appears as Delilah opposite Victor Mature’s Samson in Cecil B DeMille’s lurid romantic biblical epic film Samson and Delilah in 1949. Lamarr has a great time playing ‘HISTORY’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TREACHEROUS WOMAN!’ It […]
Singer Howard Keel often proved a nice, effective actor, but here he is uncomfortably cast as Saint Peter, in the Walt Disney studio’s often tepid, sometimes incompetent 1959 drama based on Lloyd C Douglas’s once […]
Franco Zeffirelli’s distinguished 1977 British-Italian religious drama film Jesus of Nazareth finds a perfect star in Robert Powell as Jesus, in this deservedly much acclaimed and widely shown, all-star biblical epic. Director Franco Zeffirelli’s distinguished […]
George Stevens’s 1965 biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told stars Max von Sydow, who brings dignity and nobility to his portrayal of Jesus Christ in this story of his life. John Wayne pops […]
MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]