Word: pichel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Irving Pichel, 63, longtime stage and cinemactor (Cleopatra), more recently a topnotch director (Martin Luther); of a heart ailment; in La Canada, Calif. After the success of Luther, Pichel went on to a more difficult subject, a week before his death completed Day of Triumph, the first full-length film on the life of Christ since Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 King of Kings...
...master hand of Louis de Rochemont is obvious in such touches as market place scenes and the ceric effect of coweled monks sitting, mummy-like in their stalls, singing Gregorian chants. And director Irving Pichel controls the pace, never allowing the action to falter or interfere with the film's message...