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Bible | Crucifixion
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Best Archival Release of an Existing Score ReRelease or ReRecording | 2021
Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family November | 1961 | Nicholas
Best Original Score | 1962
Budget 7,775,000 USD
Box Office Collection 13,400,000 USD
The crucifixion scene had to be re-shot because a preview audience was offended at Jesus having a hairy chest.
Nicholas Ray considered Keith Michell, Christopher Plummer, and Peter Cushing for the role of Christ before signing Jeffrey Hunter. He also expressed an interest in hiring Max von Sydow for the role. Von Sydow played Christ a few years later in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
Ray Bradbury wrote the narration, but was uncredited.
Not only was Jeffrey Hunter's chest hair shaved for the crucifixion scene but his underarms as well. So much attention has been paid to this situation over the past fifty years that nobody's ever noticed Hunter also wears a false putty nose throughout the film, most evident in the close-ups at the crucifixion scenes.
This film's narrator, Orson Welles, would later narrate a portion of another Biblical work, The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979). Before narrating this Biblical epic about the King of kings, Welles had earlier portrayed a king himself in another Biblical epic, David and Goliath (1960). Welles would even portray a director directing a Biblical epic in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963), when he ironically had earlier directed himself in his own scenes in David e Golia (1960).
"[Jesus is mending a chair for the Virgin Mary, but has to leave for Jerusalem] Jesus: The chair will have to wait until I return. Virgin Mary: [having a vague premonition of Jesus' arrest, trial and death] The chair will never be mended. I am going with you."
"John the Baptist: Woman, is not your cup of abominations full enough? Herodias: How dare you say that to my face. Get down on your knees and beg my forgiveness! John the Baptist: You, woman? Who has given herself the captains of Assyria? To the young men of Egypt? Who has deserted the bed of her first husband, to live in incestuous lust with his brother? Salome: Is there blood in your veins? Or, poison?"
