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King of Kings (Samuel Bronston; M-G-M). Christianity, which has survived the Turkish onslaught and the Communist conspiracy, may even survive this picture; but individual Christians who try to sit through it may find themselves longing for extreme unction...
...remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 life of Christ. King of Kings was produced in Spain by a marked-down DeMille named Samuel Bronston who built 396 sets, hired some 20,000 extras and a dozen slightly famous players, spent more than four months and $8,000.000. And what emerged? Incontestably the corniest, phoniest, ickiest and most monstrously vulgar of all the big Bible stories Hollywood has told in the last decade. Nevertheless, the subject is so dear to the hearts of millions that King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months...
Fortunately. Bronston's bust enjoys one solid virtue: a script precisely organized and competently prosed by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan. who has often quite sensitively reconciled the grandeurs of the King James version with the need for a fresh, contemporary tone. After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession...
...historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life and sufferings signify for us ... It is obvious that Bronston, Ray and Yordan have no opinion on the subject of Christ, except that He is a hot box-office property...
...freestyle--won by Anderson (Y); 2. Hunter (H); 3. Bronston (Y). Time--50.0. 200-yd. backstroke--won by Dolbey (Y); 2. Alexander (Y); 3. Pildner (H). Time--2:15.8. 440-yd. freestyle--won by Ball (Y); 2. Karetsky (Y); 3. Komenda (H). Time--4:50.6. 200-yd. breaststroke--won by Koletsky (Y); 2. Stanley (H); 3. McCartney (H). Time--2:25.5 (new pool record, old record of 2:27.6 set in 1959 by Stanley (H). 400-yd. freestyle relay--won by Harvard (Ulbrich, D. Seaton, Cooley, R. Seaton). Time--3:30.5 (Yale disqualified for last man jumping off too soon...