I'm typically a sap for Biblical epics. Just give me some great Techni-Color in CinemaScope and some beautiful Biblical sets and costumes and you've got me watching. I've loved everything from SAMSON & DELILAH to THE ROBE to QUO VADIS to DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS to THE TEN COMMANDMENTS to BEN-HUR to KING OF KINGS, etc. But this one I found a bit of a chore to get through. I didn't really have a problem with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward as the leads. Just that the story itself seemed to move at a snail's pace. It was pretty much sold as a love story and nothing more. I guess I expected to see more from the life of King David. Not merely a romance. So in that regard I was quite disappointed. A good cure for insomnia I suppose.
Review of David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba
(1951)
The worst of the Biblical epics... and I like almost all of them!
29 December 2011