The Robe
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Actor: Ben A. Astar, Dawn Addams, Helen Beverly, Leon Askin, Michael AnsaraCinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Composer: Alfred Newman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
Published: 2001
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Robe
Movie Review: "The Great Stone Was Rolled Away"
Summary: 5 Stars
Before movie blockbusters like Ben-Hur awed the film going audience with amazing chariot races in '59, or 'The Ten Commandments' miraculously parted the Red Sea in '56, the 'The Robe' won over the Christian audience in '53 with a poignant though fictitious appendium to the story of Jesus of Nazareth. It may not have been quite as grand in scale as the two epics to follow, but it was every bit as attractive and compelling.
Plot: Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton), a Roman tribune from a weathy and prominent Roman family is sent to serve in far away Jerusalem after an altercation with Caligula (Jay Robinson), the future emperor. While in the Holy Land Marcellus' last official act before returning home is to oversea the crucifixion of Jesus. While Jesus slowly dies on the cross Marcellus plays a game of dice with the soldiers, wining the robe of the would be Messiah in the process. Moments later Jesus dies, the sky darkens, thunder strikes and a downpour begins.
Marcellus' slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) leaves the tribune, taking the robe with him to return to the Christian community and Marcellus returns to Rome a vastly different man. Emotional disturbed by the experience of Jesus' crucifixion he is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. Is there power in the robe, maybe a curse placed on it by this man who called himself Messiah? For the sake of his sanity Marcellus returns to the site of his obsession to recover the robe and discern the source of its hold on him.
Comments: I love everything about this film. Burton and Mature are at their best, Burton's love interest Jean Simmons (Diana) has never looked lovelier and Jay Robinson in the role of Emperor Caligula gives one of the greatest supporting performances that has ever graced the movie screen.
Summary of The Robe
The first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, THE ROBE ws nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Richard Burton. Burton stars as Marcellus Galilo, the Roman centurian charged with overseeing the crucifixion. But when he wins Christ's robe in a gambling game at the foot of the cross, his life is forever changed.Drama DVD Video
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