The Bible

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The Bible

1966,

2h 54m,

Drama

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6 Reviews

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5,000+ Ratings

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55%

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John Huston directs this survey course of the Old Testament, which, the title notwithstanding, covers only the first 22 chapters of Genesis. Adam (Michael Parks) and Eve (Ulla Bergryd) frolic in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out. Cain (Richard Harris) murders his brother Abel (Franco Nero), Noah (John Huston) builds an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood and Abraham (George C. Scott) makes a covenant with God.

Pauline Kael

The New Republic

Aug 30, 2012

Huston's triumph is that despite the insanity of the attempt and the grandiosity of the project, the technology doesn't dominate the material.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

May 9, 2005

The misfortune of The Bible is that it does not live up to hopes. It does not employ the cinema medium to create a true 20th-century iconography. It simply repeats in moving pictures what has been done with still pictures over the centuries.

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Bob Halliday

Salt Lake Tribune

Aug 18, 2021

The film is a literal, cinematic transcript. Of all the best-sellers brought to the screen, this one most closely follows the Book.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 30, 2005

2/5

Film4 Staff

Film4

Feb 26, 2005

This could potentially make for scintillating viewing -- and it's certainly an extravagent... Yet Huston, starring in triple roles as Noah, the Narrator and - yes - God - succeeds in making the film as sterile and ponderous as possible.

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Mar 31, 2004

D

strictly formulaic Biblical work with an all-star cast that ranks as the most embarrassing directing work that John Huston ever undertook

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Jan 27, 2019

The best inspiring movie ever made!

Draco M

Jun 2, 2018

Stands alongside "The Nativity Story" as one of the most accurate Biblical films of all time. I quite liked it. Very little license is taken. Quite well done.

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Han S

Apr 17, 2018

Dull but the acting was great.

Poe G

May 19, 2017

A lot of money went into this! (possibly from credit cards and collection bowls) but the budget has clearly been used well. This is a film I saw on TV as a kid and marvelled at its opening sequence about the creation of the universe, the earth and Adam and Eve. Nothing quite lives up to the sheer majesty of this first half an hour or so but some of the sets such as Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel, are amazing for the era and frankly, still look pretty damn good now. It's a loooong film and would probably bore the tits off non-Christians (a torture method which may have worked in the Spanish Inquisition!) with its self-righteous tone but there's no question- it is stunningly well done.

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Rey S

Apr 14, 2017

This is a film I saw on TV as a kid and marvelled at its opening sequence about the creation of the universe, the earth and Adam and Eve. Nothing quite lives up to the sheer majesty of this first half an hour or so but some of the sets such as Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel, are amazing for the era and frankly, still look pretty damn good now. It's a loooong film and would probably bore the tits off non-Christians (even more casual Christians!) with its self-righteous tone but there's no question- it is stunningly well done.

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Michael Parks

Adam

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Abraham

Richard Harris

Cain

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Ulla Bergryd

Eve

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Synopsis

John Huston directs this survey course of the Old Testament, which, the title notwithstanding, covers only the first 22 chapters of Genesis. Adam (Michael Parks) and Eve (Ulla Bergryd) frolic in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out. Cain (Richard Harris) murders his brother Abel (Franco Nero), Noah (John Huston) builds an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood and Abraham (George C. Scott) makes a covenant with God.

Director: John Huston
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Screenwriter: Christopher Fry
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 28, 1966, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Runtime: 2h 54m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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