Director: George Stevens

Writers: James Lee Barrett; George Stevens

Keywords: Drama, Bible

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Ansara	Actor	15-Apr-1922		Cochise in Broken Arrow
Carroll Baker	Actor	28-May-1931		Baby Doll
Ina Balin	Actor	12-Nov-1937	20-Jun-1990	The Patsy
Robert Blake	Actor	18-Sep-1933		Baretta, acquitted of murdering wife
Pat Boone	Singer	1-Jun-1934		Whitens up those black songs
Victor Buono	Actor	3-Feb-1938	1-Jan-1982	King Tut on Batman
Richard Conte	Actor	24-Mar-1910	15-Apr-1975	The Blue Gardenia
Frank DeKova	Actor	17-Mar-1910	15-Oct-1981	Chief Wild Eagle on F Troop
Jamie Farr	Actor	1-Jul-1934		Corporal Klinger on M*A*S*H
Jose Ferrer	Actor	8-Jan-1909	26-Jan-1992	The Caine Mutiny
David Hedison	Actor	20-May-1927		Twice Felix Leiter in Bond films
Van Heflin	Actor	13-Dec-1910	23-Jul-1971	Till the Clouds Roll By
Charlton Heston	Actor	4-Oct-1924		Heston is the NRA
Russell Johnson	Actor	10-Nov-1924		The Professor on Gilligan's Island
Martin Landau	Actor	20-Jun-1931		Mission: Impossible, Space 1999
Angela Lansbury	Actor	16-Oct-1925		Murder She Wrote
Robert Loggia	Actor	3-Jan-1930		The Jagged Edge
Janet Margolin	Actor	25-Jul-1943	17-Dec-1993	Take the Money and Run
David McCallum	Actor	19-Sep-1933		Illya on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Roddy McDowall	Actor	17-Sep-1928	3-Oct-1998	Planet of the Apes
Dorothy McGuire	Actor	14-Jun-1916	13-Sep-2001	A Summer Place
Sal Mineo	Actor	10-Jan-1939	12-Feb-1976	Dies in Rebel Without A Cause
Nehemiah Persoff	Actor	2-Aug-1919		The Harder They Fall
Donald Pleasence	Actor	5-Oct-1919	2-Feb-1995	The Great Escape
Sidney Poitier	Actor	20-Feb-1927		In The Heat Of The Night
Claude Rains	Actor	10-Nov-1889	30-May-1967	The Invisible Man
Telly Savalas	Actor	22-Jan-1922	22-Jan-1994	Kojak
Joseph Schildkraut	Actor	22-Mar-1896	21-Jan-1964	The Life of Emile Zola
Max von Sydow	Actor	10-Apr-1929		The Exorcist
John Wayne	Actor	26-May-1907	11-Jun-1979	The Duke
Shelley Winters	Actor	18-Aug-1920	14-Jan-2006	Method actress and camp queen
Ed Wynn	Actor	9-Nov-1886	19-Jun-1966	Requiem for a Heavyweight

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 29-Jun-2006)

Sure, it flopped at the box office at the time, but, in my opinion, it's the greatest of all Hollywood's "Jesus" flix. It's chock full of the leading stars and character actors of the era. The only actor missing was "Lassie". John Wayne's portrayal of the gladiator at Calvary is a hoot, and sure to elicit a few giggles. Despite this one bad casting choice, George Stevens' production is not bad at all. It's not holiday time at my house without watching TGSET at least once!

Review by Russ Asson (posted on 14-Mar-2005)

I had the intention of buying this movie for my family for Easter, but thought that because it was so old that I might have trouble finding it. Nope, and thank Goodness. Wal-Mart has a digitally remastered and restored CD set for $14.88. This is a magnificent movie, one of the grand scale movies very much in the tradition of The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. It cost $20M to make in 1965, at the time a fabulous sum. In today's dollars that would be over $112M! They just don't make movies like this any more -- they can't. The cast is so extensive that it's astounding that so many talented people could be in one production. There are scenes in this movie that will give you goosebumps and that you'll remember all of your life. I do. In my mind's eye I can see and hear the exchange between John the Baptist (played with authority by Charlton Heston) and Herod. The raising of Lazarus will also stick in your mind's eye. This is a family friendly movie, although this remastered version (which has several scenes that didn't appear in the theatrical version) has a run time of nearly 3 hours and 20 minutes. This is a movie that you will treasure.

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