Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oceans for underwater scenes. A sort of Cecil B. DeMilione, he recently completed Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation of The Bible. De Laurentiis will stick with the original title...
...Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar. In a non-Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin ("The rebels rushed up to us and ran into the fortress") into a $600,000 cavalry charge. He made one bad mistake (at least financially) when he refused to produce Fellini's La Dolce Vita. De Laurentiis says that Fellini...
...stands, this double bill lasts about one hour too long. By leaving after Citizen Kane, you will miss an epic longueur and still have a chance to see a film that can hardly fail to please almost anyone...
Mullin, Hamlin, and Meehan will run against such old nemeses as Dave Farley of Brown and (shudder) Bobby Mack of Yale. Mack and Mullin have staged some epic battles over the years...
...Samuel Bronston, who produced the year's most embarrassing epic (King of Kings), also produced its only satisfactory superspectacle-thanks principally to Director Anthony Mann...