The Silver Chalice (1954)
Country: US
Technical: Warnercolor/scope 142m
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo
Synopsis:
A Greek slave metallurgist is tasked with the work of producing a chalice worthy of the Christ, with the faces of the apostles encrusted on the rim. His task ultimately takes him to Rome, where he confronts pseudo-Christian charlatanry.
Review:
Just as The Robe was Burton's first Hollywood film, so was this Newman's, but all comparison ends there, besides the superficially similar material. Saville has no sense of how to produce a marketable biblical epic; his story lacks action and excitement, and he has provided himself with sleek-lined theatrical sets and no exteriors to speak of, never mind locations. What makes matters worse is that Newman is far less comfortable with 'emoting the material' (unlike Burton), and the whole thing just sags.
Country: US
Technical: Warnercolor/scope 142m
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo
Synopsis:
A Greek slave metallurgist is tasked with the work of producing a chalice worthy of the Christ, with the faces of the apostles encrusted on the rim. His task ultimately takes him to Rome, where he confronts pseudo-Christian charlatanry.
Review:
Just as The Robe was Burton's first Hollywood film, so was this Newman's, but all comparison ends there, besides the superficially similar material. Saville has no sense of how to produce a marketable biblical epic; his story lacks action and excitement, and he has provided himself with sleek-lined theatrical sets and no exteriors to speak of, never mind locations. What makes matters worse is that Newman is far less comfortable with 'emoting the material' (unlike Burton), and the whole thing just sags.
Country: US
Technical: Warnercolor/scope 142m
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo
Synopsis:
A Greek slave metallurgist is tasked with the work of producing a chalice worthy of the Christ, with the faces of the apostles encrusted on the rim. His task ultimately takes him to Rome, where he confronts pseudo-Christian charlatanry.
Review:
Just as The Robe was Burton's first Hollywood film, so was this Newman's, but all comparison ends there, besides the superficially similar material. Saville has no sense of how to produce a marketable biblical epic; his story lacks action and excitement, and he has provided himself with sleek-lined theatrical sets and no exteriors to speak of, never mind locations. What makes matters worse is that Newman is far less comfortable with 'emoting the material' (unlike Burton), and the whole thing just sags.