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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0085391156031
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: July 07, 1994
Running Time: 142 minutes
Sales Rank: 10401
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1954
Editorial Review:
Description:
Paul Newman - in his screen debut - plays a 1st century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery. He escapes harm when his talent is discovered and he is comissioned to create a replica of the chalice Jesus drank from at the Last Supper.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Don't Drink From This Chalice
One of the worst films in this genre starring Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance, Pier Angeli, Joseph Wiseman, Natalie Wood, E.G. Marshall, Lorne Greene and Alexander Scourby. The story follows the life of a Greek slave asked to craft a silver chalice to be used at the Last Supper.
Horrible performances and direction all around except for Jack Palance as Simon the Magician: I would give the film a -100 if Palance weren't in it. Given the dialogue and direction, it's immediately ... Read More
Rating:  - Chalice of Surrealism
This is one of the strangest looking films I can remember. The sets make this film look like a biblical soap opera gone futuristic. I am not sure if this was director Victor Saville's intent or not. Filmed in CinemaScope by William V. Skall, it just looks so offbeat. In fact, Skall was nominated for an Academy Award for his Color Cinematography on this film. Based on the novel by Thomas Costain, it deals with the trials and tribulations of a Greek craftsman, portrayed by a very young Paul Newman, ... Read More
Rating:  - New-Bayreuth comes to Judea
Of all the religious epics of the '50's this is one of the few worthy of repeated viewings. Newman and the lovely Pier Angeli in their first screen roles (and a very brief appearence of Natalie Wood as a blond childhood version of Virginia Mayo!). But it is Jack Palance as Simon that makes this film worth repeated viewings. It is difficult to even contemplate acting on so truely outragious a level-he even makes Nero seem rational.
Just as interesting is the Set-Design. A few times in the ... Read More
Rating: - A Curious Old Flick
Reviewers are right on.. that the sets are one of the most interesting aspects of this film. However there seem to be some misconceptions about the story. "Basil" (Paul Newman) did not design the cup used at the last supper, but designed a silver chalice to hold the cup, and the plot involves him traveling around as he carves likenesses of the apostles, for a decoration on the silver cup "holder". Palance hams it up as Simon Magnus, a character from the New Testament, who tried to "buy" the religious ... Read More
Rating: - great film!
This is a really well worth seeing. It's not perfection, which makes it even more worth seeing. Virginia Mayo and Paul Newman are great in it. It's romantic, adventurous, and interesting. The theme of using religion in the movie sis wonderful, it should be done more often is today's day and age as well.
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