Classic Films

El Supremo

(20,386 posts) Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:43 PM Dec 2020

I'm watching King of Kings for perhaps the first time an am amazed by...

it's similarity to Ben Hur. The same music and the same actor playing Herod Antipas who played Pontius Pilate. They were both MGM epics. But KoKs looks really good in Technirama wide screen.

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I'm watching King of Kings for perhaps the first time an am amazed by... (Original Post) El Supremo Dec 2020 OP

What channel? dhol82 Dec 2020 #1

Last night on TCM. El Supremo Dec 2020 #3

Ah. Never mind. dhol82 Dec 2020 #6

Is this the one with Jeffrey Hunter? I saw that one a hundred years ago and even at a young age, Karadeniz Dec 2020 #2

He was pretty good. El Supremo Dec 2020 #5

Those epic technicolor films of the 1960s were spectacular appalachiablue Dec 2020 #4

dhol82

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1. What channel?

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Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:46 PM

Dec 2020

El Supremo

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3. Last night on TCM.

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:48 PM

Dec 2020

I can see it on on demand for awhile.

dhol82

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6. Ah. Never mind.

Reply to El Supremo (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:51 PM

Dec 2020

Karadeniz

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2. Is this the one with Jeffrey Hunter? I saw that one a hundred years ago and even at a young age,

Reply to El Supremo (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:47 PM

Dec 2020

I couldn't accept the actor's looks as being Jesus.

El Supremo

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5. He was pretty good.

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:50 PM

Dec 2020

He had to shave his chest and underarms to be on the cross.

appalachiablue

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4. Those epic technicolor films of the 1960s were spectacular

Reply to El Supremo (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 08:49 PM

Dec 2020

productions, but contained some gruesome parts. Being quite young some of the scenes really got to me- Ben Hur with his leper mother and sister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-and-sandal

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