Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CinemaScope adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' best-selling novel is alternately impressive, faltering, and finally disappointing. Despite the magnitude of such early scenes as the Roman slave market, the dusty plains of Galilee, and the splendor of imperial Rome, this wide sweep of spectacle lacks meaning without a devout testament of faith...
...open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman's Kansas City office (for a chat about the Constitution), a tour of Associated Press headquarters and practice sessions with sports heroes. Excursion (no sponsor so far) succeeds in being what it sets out to be: entertainingly educational...
...sections of the Tafe-Hartley law. Herzog and the four other members of the NLRB used that law in making over 10,000 decisions on specific labor issues over the past five years. Remaking about his opinion of the law, Herzog said, "If I had thought it was a slave labor law I wouldn't have stayed on six years to administrate it. On the other hand if I had thought that it was perfect, I wouldn't have testified before Congress this spring for changes...
Handed the routine military job of supervising the execution of Christ ("a fanatical troublemaker "), Burton passes the time on Calvary by winning Christ's robe in a dice game. In the earth-shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits...
...Robe would have been a good movie in two-dimensional black and white. In CinemaScope, which uses a wide-angle lens to throw its picture on a curved screen nearly three times the normal width, it all but overpowers the eye with spectacular movie murals of slave markets, imperial cities, grandiose palaces and panoramic landscapes that are neither distorted nor require the use of polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough...