This was perhaps the first movie to both show the face of Jesus and give Him a speaking role. Jeffrey Hunter makes the Christ come to life in this epic, more or less a remake of the DeMille silent epic from the 1920s. It begins with a historical...
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This was perhaps the first movie to both show the face of Jesus and give Him a speaking role. Jeffrey Hunter makes the Christ come to life in this epic, more or less a remake of the DeMille silent epic from the 1920s. It begins with a historical narrative of the Holy Land before the birth of Christ and ends at the time of His ascension into heaven. Ron Randell almost steals the show as Lucius the centurion. Orson Welles provides narration, uncredited. A superb score by Miklós Rósza.