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The film begins the story of Barabbas where the Bible lets it end. Flung from his cell by soldiers, the brutish criminal (Anthony Quinn) reels against the whipping post where Christ has just been scourged; when he rises to his feet his hands are covered with Christ's blood...
And so, like Christ, Barabbas descends into hell. In the third decade he rises again, a man transformed in body but not in spirit. He has thought continually of Christ, but still he cannot understand how God could exist if God cannot be seen, how God could be a man...
In a somber. 4OO-word statement printed in his own London Times, Baron Astor of Hever, 76, who was born in New York City and is the great-great-grandson of fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor, announced that though he loves England dearly and will remain a loyal citizen...
Fast Action. When a Supreme Court Justice retires or dies, the President usually takes a while to name a successor. Franklin Roosevelt waited six months, for example, before naming Frankfurter to succeed Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor...
But as the story develops he develops into a conspicuously compromised politician who does not hesitate to use an evil means for what he assumes to be a good end: self-preservation. At one point the President coldly starts to strangle a small boy who has recognized him. "Hundreds will...