Barabbas

Barabbas
by Richard Fleischer

Barabbas
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Katy Jurado, Silvana Mangano
Director: Richard Fleischer
Brand: Sony
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Writer: Christopher Fry
Writer: Diego Fabbri
Writer: Ivo Perilli
Writer: Nigel Balchin
Writer: P?r Lagerkvist
Writer: Salvatore Quasimodo
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Barabbas

Movie Review: Underviewed Epic
Summary: 4 Stars

Anthony Quinn is interesting to watch at any time. His roles are as diverse as the world, and as great as his performances as Zapata's brother, Zorba the Greek, or Barabbas the thief who was spared by the mob when Jesus was crucified.

Barabbas is a literate epic based upon a novel by Par Lagerkvist (Nobel prize winner for Literature). Its hero struggles with real issues. It is a searching lifetime self-examination by a man obsessed by guilt and a need he hardly understands. What has happened to him? A fluke, a rare stroke of fortune, and then, questions flood in, unbidden thoughts, a terrifying rush of new ideas and deep change.

Well worth a look. No CGI here, Ridley Scott it's not, it's the real deal. Stay with it, listen, be amazed, be really amazed.

Summary of Barabbas

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: Antony Quinn Run time: 137 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role, Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on biblical characters. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is so rewarding to the eye in Aldo Tonti's often dazzling cinematography.

Many scenes, such as Christ's crucifixion, are shot and staged like tableaux in a style reminiscent of the great masters of art. And director Richard Fleischer surpasses anything Ridley Scott achieved years later in Gladiator: he fills the huge arena--a vast Roman amphitheatre--with a gladiatorial school of hand-to-hand combat, a parade of elephants, and a den of lions, and then caps his production with a riveting and thrillingly mounted duel between Jack Palance, careering round the circumference of the arena in his chariot, and Barabbas dodging him on foot. --Adrian Edwards

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