The Greatest Story Ever Told (Movie Only Edition)
by David Lean, George Stevens, Jean Negulesco
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Actor: Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Dorothy McGuire, Max von Sydow, Michael Anderson Jr.Director: David Lean, George Stevens, Jean Negulesco
Writer: George Stevens
Writer: Carl Sandburg
Writer: Fulton Oursler
Writer: Henry Denker
Writer: James Lee Barrett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 199 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: the greatest story ever told
Summary: 1 Stars
this is the worst, most biblically incorrect, boringness movie I have ever watched. I mean, not one scene was portrayed correctly; from Jesus being baptized to his picking of his disciples, the woman caught is adultery, the wilderness of 40 years , Saul not being converted to Paul after the resurrection, raising Lazarus, and many more. There were several scenes where the actors were striking a pose, meaning they didn't move as if they were frozen when they were being filmed. Horrible move. It even loaded slow to the point that I thought is was damaged. The only good thing is that I bought it online with Amazon.
Summary of The Greatest Story Ever Told (Movie Only Edition)
"A magnificent film, handled with reverence, artistic appreciation and admirable restraint" (NewYork Daily News), this glorious epic is an inspiring, grand-scale recreation of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from His humble birth and teachings to His crucifixion and ultimate Resurrection. Lavishly produced at a cost of $20 millionan enormous amount for the timeand honored with five 1965 Academy Award?(r) nominations*, this exceptional motion picture is exquisitely beautiful. Now fully restored to its original theatrical brilliance with intermission and overture, it is truly The Greatest Story Ever Told. *Cinematography (Color), Original Score, Art Direction (Color), Costume Design (Color), Special Visual EffectsThe 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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