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List Price: $19.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1965 DVD Release : 06 March, 2001 |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told description The life of Christ got an excessively long treatment (260 minutes, later trimmed to 195) in this 1965 film directed by George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank). Max von Sydow does beautiful work as Jesus--his spontaneous mourning at discovering his friend Lazarus has died is not like anything in other New Testament epics--and Stevens renders the familiar tale with a handsome authenticity. But the project is nearly undone by an unwise gimmick in which seemingly half of Hollywood's living stars at the time make brief (often very brief) cameo appearances, some of which are ridiculous. But there is a lot to like in the film, and Von Sydow's sensitive nobility sticks in the memory. --Tom Keogh |
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| A ponderous retelling of the life of Christ with Swedish actor Max von Sydow in the role of Jesus. Swedish Jesus is hard to accept. Even von Sydow admitted difficulty. He comes off as a spaced-out caricature. Maybe a man who never sinned has to be this way. I have wondered why it was no sin when Jesus angrily drove the moneychangers from the temple with a whip. The cast is a "Who's Who in Hollywood," and the fun part is to pick out famous people. John Wayne is the Roman Centurion at the cross. "Truly, this man was the Son of God." This film ushered out the era of big budget Bible pictures.
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