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Cecil B DeMille remakes his 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments in 1956 with the help of Charlton Heston as Moses, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Technicolor, VistaVision and Oscar-winning special effects. Director […]
The Gospel according to director Ridley Scott is a typically beautifully crafted, visually stunning affair that he tries desperately hard to turn into Gladiator 2, with Moses as an action hero, and inevitably mostly fails. It’s not […]
Paul Newman took out a newspaper ad in America to ask people not to watch this biblical epic, his first film, in which he plays Basil, the Greek artisan craftsman ordered by St Luke to […]
Nicholas Ray’s 1961 biblical epic movie King of Kings is devout and affecting. Jeffrey Hunter defies his odd casting and gives a surprisingly effective performance as Jesus. Though much derided at the time, mostly by […]