Whenever the Hollywood EP gets drunk on its own cultural importance that is trying to pre-legitimize by throwing every available starvet in the city, you can be sure that the finished product will be either a terminal, or in order to disaster. Darryl F.'s "longest day" Zanuk is a very former, 178-minute milling that is trying and largely fails to attack the film pages in the middle of the D-day invasion through the techniques of Docodrama; It is often technically impressive, but quickly turns into a game of Spot-Star, which drags us directly from the film. And then there is a "Casino Royal" since 1967, a parody of the famous Jamesesheims Bond, who feels like he is looking at an exclusive, just with fuel from the house across the street.

There are obvious exceptions, but they come with caution to consciously satirizing Hollywood's insolarity (Robert Altman's "player") or simply being a hot project that every actor in the city was desperate to be part of no matter how small the role (Terrence Malik's "thin red line"). This brings us to "The Biggest Story ever told" in 1965, which, in theory, was supposed to be somewhere in Malik's film league. The long -term Bible epic EP for the life of Jesus Christ came at a time when the three -hour religious saga fell out of commercial benefit. He also had bad luck to get into production a year after the publication of Nicolas Ray's "King's King's", which told the same "greatest story".

"The biggest story ever told" there were two things about it a) the movie Ray, while the box office hit did not leave much of the cultural impression, and b) The two -time director of the Academy Award, George Stevens ("Place of the Sun" and "Giant"). With Stevens on the ship, there was a feeling that this would definitely be Hollywood's story about the Gospel. As a result, Starswells were flattered for roles of large and miniature as a means of moving the public on the move that this would be likely to put an end to all epics. How did this succeed?

On its merit, "the greatest story ever told", which you can now Watch free On several streaming platforms, the Superstwar-Leader for both lead roles has not passed. Max von Sidow, toast at the World Cinema, through his performances in Swedish plays by Ingmar Bergman, won the role of Jesus Christ, while Dorothy McGuire, the best actress Oscar nominated for her work in "Lord Kazan", was chosen to play her Virgo. Casting Charlton "Ben-Hau" Heston Because Johnon The Baptist certainly caused good interest, but Claude Raines, Jose Ferrer and Martin Landau were not hacked-celebrity celebrities.

When you go down, the casting line, the "biggest story told ever", becomes silly. Sidney Poitje, Angela Lansbury, Shelley Winters, Robert Blake and pop star Road Bo in celebrated roles for a walk were strictly publicized. And then, here was the clerk: Johnon Wayne as a Roman Centrion.

During my childhood, Stevens' film was one of several spiritual nutritional films forcing children once a year. I will not pretend that I was happy to sit through four commercially interrupted hours of the "ten commandments" or "Ben-hur", but at least they had pieces of lubricants. "The biggest story he once told" "Only there were stars - many stars, next to Duke Wayne, sleeping the last line of the film," indeed, this man was the Son of God. " The film earned $ 15.5 million against a $ 20m budget and failed even until the United artists sold television rights to Ann's $ 5 million. At 199 minutes, it's a lot of film. If nothing else, you can say that the money is on the screen, because no one worked for cheaply on this movie.