Barabbas (1961)
(Barabba)
Country: IT/US
Technical: Technirama 144m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance (as a psychotic gladiator)
Synopsis:
Barabbas is freed instead of Christ and slowly comes to suspect that maybe the best man lost.
Review:
With its sulphur mines and heavy symbolism (eclipse, blindfolds, fire, etc.) this comes over as a Christian era take on Spartacus. The sets are spectacular enough but it lacks the vision of that film, barely transcending the 'Move on you dogs' register of so many of its kind, and boasts a hero who fails to articulate what is happening to him even when he understands it.
(Barabba)
Country: IT/US
Technical: Technirama 144m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance (as a psychotic gladiator)
Synopsis:
Barabbas is freed instead of Christ and slowly comes to suspect that maybe the best man lost.
Review:
With its sulphur mines and heavy symbolism (eclipse, blindfolds, fire, etc.) this comes over as a Christian era take on Spartacus. The sets are spectacular enough but it lacks the vision of that film, barely transcending the 'Move on you dogs' register of so many of its kind, and boasts a hero who fails to articulate what is happening to him even when he understands it.
(Barabba)
Country: IT/US
Technical: Technirama 144m
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance (as a psychotic gladiator)
Synopsis:
Barabbas is freed instead of Christ and slowly comes to suspect that maybe the best man lost.
Review:
With its sulphur mines and heavy symbolism (eclipse, blindfolds, fire, etc.) this comes over as a Christian era take on Spartacus. The sets are spectacular enough but it lacks the vision of that film, barely transcending the 'Move on you dogs' register of so many of its kind, and boasts a hero who fails to articulate what is happening to him even when he understands it.