Search Details

Word: lamech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better to free the Jews than to read the Talmud. The arrival of Jesus of Nazareth solves all these problems by teaching him a higher law than the sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Next