Word: whompingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points the story moves a bit slowly, and a director less restrained than Henry Koster might have tossed in a cavalry charge or a belly dancer to whomp things up a bit. Yet he resists temptation, and except for a few scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic. The actors strike a reasonable compromise between self-conscious reverence and nat ural behavior, and the speeches they are given are free from the archaic flourishes that no one since the time of King James...