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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
George Stevens
Produced by
George Stevens
Screenplay by
James Lee Barrett
George Stevens
Starring
Max von Sydow
Dorothy McGuire
Charlton Heston
José Ferrer
Telly Savalas
Music by
Alfred Newman
Cinematography
Loyal Griggs
William C. Mellor
Edited by
Harold F. Kress
Argyle Nelson, Jr.
Frank O'Neil
Production
company
George Stevens Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
April 9, 1965 (1965-04-09) (UK)
Running time
260 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$20 million[1]
Box office
$15.5 million[1]
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through to the Resurrection. This film is notable for its large ensemble cast and for being the last film appearance of Claude Rains.
Contents
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1 Cast
2 Pre-production
3 Casting
4 Production
5 Release and reception
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Cast[edit]
The major roles in the movie were following:
Max von Sydow as Jesus
Dorothy McGuire as the Virgin Mary
Charlton Heston as John the Baptist
Claude Rains as Herod the Great
José Ferrer as Herod Antipas
Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate
Martin Landau as Caiaphas
David McCallum as Judas Iscariot
Donald Pleasence as "The Dark Hermit" (a personification of Satan)
Michael Anderson, Jr. as James the Just
Roddy McDowall as Matthew
Joanna Dunham as Mary Magdalene
Joseph Schildkraut as Nicodemus
Ed Wynn as "Old Aram"
Smaller roles (some only a few seconds) were played by Michael Ansara, Ina Balin, Carroll Baker, Robert Blake, Pat Boone, Victor Buono, John Considine, Richard Conte, John Crawford, Jamie Farr, David Hedison, Van Heflin, Russell Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Mark Lenard, Robert Loggia, John Lupton, Janet Margolin, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Sidney Poitier, Gary Raymond, Marian Seldes, David Sheiner, Abraham Sofaer, Paul Stewart, John Wayne, Shelley Winters, and Peter Mann.
As of March 2018, Max von Sydow, David McCallum, Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Gary Raymond, John Considine, David Hedison, Pat Boone, Jamie Farr, Robert Blake, David Sheiner, and Michael Anderson Jr. are the only surviving main cast members.
Pre-production[edit]
The Greatest Story Ever Told originated as a U.S. radio series in 1947, half-hour episodes inspired by the Gospels. The series was adapted into a 1949 novel by Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader's Digest.[2] Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox, acquired the film rights to the Oursler novel shortly after publication,[3] but never brought it to pre-production.[4]
In 1958, when George Stevens was producing and directing The Diary of Anne Frank at 20th Century Fox, he became aware that the studio owned the rights to the Oursler property. Stevens created a company, "The Greatest Story Productions", to film the novel.[4]
Pre-production poster from 1960, with John Wayne as the Centurion.
The screenplay took two years to write. Stevens collaborated with Ivan Moffat and then with James Lee Barrett. It was the only time Stevens received screenplay credit for a film he directed.[4] Ray Bradbury and Reginald Rose were considered but neither participated. The poet Carl Sandburg was solicited, though it is not certain if any of his contributions were included. Sandburg, however, did receive screen credit for "creative association."[4][5]
Financial excesses began to grow during pre-production. Stevens commissioned French artist André Girard to prepare 352 oil paintings of Biblical scenes to use as storyboards. Stevens also traveled to the Vatican to see Pope John XXIII for advice.[2]
In August 1961, 20th Century Fox withdrew from the project, noting that $2.3 million had been spent without any footage being shot. Stevens was given two years to find another studio or 20th Century Fox would reclaim its rights. Stevens moved the film to United Artists.[2]
Meanwhile, MGM proceeded with their own 1961 Technicolor epic about the life of Christ, King of Kings, starring Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus, which was filmed in Spain, and when released was nearly an hour shorter than The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Casting[edit]
For The Greatest Story Ever Told, Stevens cast Swedish actor Max von Sydow as Jesus. Von Sydow had never appeared in an English-language film and was best known for his performances in Ingmar Bergman's dramatic films.[6] Stevens wanted an actor unknown to international audiences, free of secular and unseemly associations in the mind of the public.[7]
The Greatest Story Ever Told featured an ensemble of well-known actors, many of them in brief, even cameo, appearances. Some critics would later complain that the large cast distracted from the solemnity, notably in the appearance of John Wayne as the Roman centurion who comments on the Crucifixion, in his well-known voice, by stating: "Truly this man was the Son of God."[8][9]
Production[edit]
Stevens shot The Greatest Story Ever Told in the U.S. southwest, in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. Pyramid Lake in Nevada represented the Sea of Galilee, Lake Moab in Utah[10] was used to film the Sermon on the Mount, and California's Death Valley was the setting of Jesus' 40-day journey into the wilderness.[2][11] Parts of the film were also shot at Lake Powell, Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point in Utah.[12]
Stevens explained his decision to use the U.S. rather than in the Middle East or Europe in 1962. "I wanted to get an effect of grandeur as a background to Christ, and none of the Holy Land areas shape up with the excitement of the American southwest," he said. "I know that Colorado is not the Jordan, nor is Southern Utah Palestine. But our intention is to romanticize the area, and it can be done better here."[2]
Forty-seven sets were constructed, on location and in Hollywood studios, to accommodate Stevens' vision.[13] The Jerusalem city set was built near the northwest corner of RKO Forty Acres by early 1963, and was demolished soon after filming was completed that summer.[14]
To fill location scenes with extras, Stevens turned to local sources – R.O.T.C. cadets from an Arizona high school played Roman soldiers (after 550 Navajo Indians from a nearby reservation allegedly did not give a convincing performance; other sources claim they weren't on set long enough and left early to take part in a tribal election[15])[16] and Arizona Department of Welfare provided disabled state aid recipients to play the afflicted who sought Jesus' healing.[2]
Principal photography was scheduled to run three months but ran nine months or more[17] due to numerous delays and setbacks (most of which were due to Stevens' insistence on shooting dozens of retakes in every scene).[18] Joseph Schildkraut died before completing his performance as Nicodemus, requiring scenes to be rewritten around his absence. Cinematographer William C. Mellor had a fatal heart attack during production; Loyal Griggs, who won an Academy Award for his cinematography on Stevens’ 1953 Western classic Shane, was brought in to replace him. Joanna Dunham became pregnant, which required costume redesigns and carefully chosen camera angles.[2]
Much of the production was shot during the winter of 1962-1963, when Arizona had heavy snow. Actor David Sheiner, who played James the Elder, quipped in an interview about the snowdrifts: "I thought we were shooting Nanook of the North."[19] Stevens was also under pressure to hurry the John the Baptist sequence, which was shot at the Glen Canyon area – it was scheduled to become Lake Powell with the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the production held up the project.[2]
Stevens brought in two veteran filmmakers. Jean Negulesco filmed sequences in the Jerusalem streets and the Nativity scenes, while David Lean shot the prologue featuring Herod the Great.[4] Lean cast Claude Rains as Herod.[20]
By the time shooting was completed in August 1963, Stevens had amassed six million feet of Ultra Panavision 70 film (about 1829 km or 1136 miles, roughly the radius of the Moon). The budget ran to $20 million (equivalent to $142 million in 2010) plus additional editing and promotion charges,[21] making it the most expensive film shot in the U.S.[4][22]
The film was advertised on its first run as being shown in Cinerama. While it was shown on an ultra-curved screen, it was with one projector. True Cinerama required three projectors running simultaneously. A dozen other films were presented this way in the 1960s.
Release and reception[edit]
The Greatest Story Ever Told premiered 15 February 1965, 18 months after filming wrapped, at the Warner Cinerama Theatre in New York City. Critical reaction toward the movie was divided once it premiered. In its favor, Variety called the film "a big, powerful moving picture demonstrating vast cinematic resource." The Hollywood Reporter stated: "George Stevens has created a novel, reverent and important film with his view of this crucial event in the history of mankind."[4]
However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: "The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion." Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: "The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged!"[4] And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote: "God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told. His only begotten son turns out to be a bore."[23] Bruce Williamson, in Playboy Magazine, likewise called the movie "a big windy bore."[24]
Brendan Gill wrote in The New Yorker:
If the subject matter weren't sacred in the original, we would be responding to the picture in the most charitable way possible by laughing at it from start to finish; this Christian mercy being denied us, we can only sit and sullenly marvel at the energy for which, for more than four hours, the note of serene vulgarity is triumphantly sustained.[24]
Stevens told a New York Times interviewer: "I have tremendous satisfaction that the job has been done – to its completion – the way I wanted it done; the way I know it should have been done. It belongs to the audiences now…and I prefer to let them judge."[4] Reviews to the film continue to be mixed, as it currently holds a 37% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.[25]
The original running time was 4 hr 20 min (260 min).[23] The time was revised three times, to 3 hr 58 min (238 min); to 3 hr 17 min (197 min) for the United Kingdom, and finally 2 hr 17 min (137 min) for general U.S. release.[2] Commercially, the film was not successful (by 1983 it had grossed less than $8 million, perhaps 17 percent of the amount required to break even),[21] and its inability to connect with audiences discouraged production of biblical epics for years.[26]
For the 2001 DVD release, a 3 hr 19 min (199 min) version was presented along with a documentary called He Walks With Beauty, which detailed the film’s tumultuous production history. Its Blu-ray release appeared in 2011.[13]
Despite the mixed critical reception and low box office receipts, The Greatest Story Ever Told was nominated for five Academy Awards:[27]
Awards
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipient
Outcome
Academy Awards[28] April 18, 1966 Best Cinematography, Color William C. Mellor (posthumous nomination) and Loyal Griggs Nominated
Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color Art Direction: Richard Day, William J. Creber, and David S. Hall (posthumous nomination)
Set Decoration: Ray Moyer, Fred M. MacLean, and Norman Rockett
Best Costume Design, Color Marjorie Best and Vittorio Nino Novarese
Best Effects, Special Visual Effects J. McMillan Johnson
Best Music, Score – Substantially Original Alfred Newman
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[29]
2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated[30]
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
Nominated Epic Film[31]
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1965
Cultural depictions of Jesus
King of Kings – an earlier film about the life of Jesus, released in 1961.
Whitewashing in film, the practice of casting a white actor in a traditionally nonwhite role
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)". The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Medved, Harry & Michael. "The Hollywood Hall of Shame." Perigree Books, 1984. ISBN 0-399-50714-0
Jump up ^ Henry Denker, who wrote or co-wrote many of the radio episodes, was co-recipient of the purchase money - see Hollywood Hall of Shame p. 134
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Giant". google.com.
Jump up ^ The movie's opening credits include: Screenplay by James Lee Barrett and George Stevens, based on the Books of the Old and New Testaments, Other Ancient Writings, the Writings of Fulton Oursler and Henry Denker, and in Creative Association with Carl Sandburg (see Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 136)
Jump up ^ Walker, John. "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies." HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 0-06-093507-3
Jump up ^ Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 138
Jump up ^ "The Greatest Story Ever Told". Turner Classic Movies.
Jump up ^ "It is impossible for those watching the film to avoid the merry game of 'Spot the Star', and the road to Calvary in particular comes to resemble the Hollywood Boulevard 'Walk of Fame'." Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 137
Jump up ^ There is no Sake Moab in Utah, although Medved wrote that in Hollywood Ball of Shame
Jump up ^ Land, Barbara; Myrick Land (1995). A short history of Reno. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-87417-262-1.
Jump up ^ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.
^ Jump up to: a b "DVD Verdict Review - The Greatest Story Ever Told". DVD Verdict.
Jump up ^ "40 Acres - The Lost Studio Backlot of Movie & Television Fame - The Desilu Years". www.retroweb.com.
Jump up ^ "The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) - Trivia - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
Jump up ^ Hollywood Hall of Shame p. 139
Jump up ^ John Consodine stated, "I only signed up for 15 weeks on location, but I ended up staying for 54." see Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 140
Jump up ^ "For the 'Raising of Lazarus' scene, for example, Stevens ordered more than 30 different camera setups and forced the actors through their paces 20 times." Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 140
Jump up ^ "Several hundred volunteers . . braved the elements with shovels, wheelbarrows, bulldozers, and fifty butane flame throwers to remove the snow from the expensive replica of the Holy Land." Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 140
Jump up ^ Skal, David J. "Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice." University Press of Kentucky, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8131-2432-2
^ Jump up to: a b Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 142
Jump up ^ "Such giants as Cleopatra and Lawrence of Arabia did boast bigger budgets, but they were shot on foreign soil." Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 137
^ Jump up to: a b "Jesus Christ, cinema star". Boston.com.
^ Jump up to: a b quoted in Hollywood Hall of Shame, p. 141
Jump up ^ "The Greatest Story Ever Told". rottentomatoes.com. 15 February 1965.
Jump up ^ Steven D. Greydanus. "The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)". Decent Films.
Jump up ^ "NY Times: The Greatest Story Ever Told". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
Jump up ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-14.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-14.
Jump up ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2016-08-19. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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