Barabbas [VHS]

Barabbas [VHS]
by Richard Fleischer

Barabbas [VHS]

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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Katy Jurado, Silvana Mangano
Director: Richard Fleischer
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Writer: Christopher Fry
Writer: Diego Fabbri
Writer: Ivo Perilli
Writer: Nigel Balchin
Writer: P?r Lagerkvist
Writer: Salvatore Quasimodo
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 134 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of Barabbas [VHS]

Movie Review: Another fine film from the past...
Summary: 4 Stars

That will never be made in hollyweird this day without being reaped of anything worth merit. Passion!

Romance (both adventure and love)!

Action!

and most of all... A friggin PLOT!

Buy it if you love Hollywood before it became hollyweird.

Movie Review: Underviewed Epic
Summary: 4 Stars

Anthony Quinn is interesting to watch at any time. His roles are as diverse as the world, and as great as his performances as Zapata's brother, Zorba the Greek, or Barabbas the thief who was spared by the mob when Jesus was crucified.

Barabbas is a literate epic based upon a novel by Par Lagerkvist (Nobel prize winner for Literature). Its hero struggles with real issues. It is a searching lifetime self-examination by a man obsessed by guilt and a need he hardly understands. What has happened to him? A fluke, a rare stroke of fortune, and then, questions flood in, unbidden thoughts, a terrifying rush of new ideas and deep change.

Well worth a look. No CGI here, Ridley Scott it's not, it's the real deal. Stay with it, listen, be amazed, be really amazed.

Movie Review: Barabbas
Summary: 4 Stars

The only thing I really want to know before purchasing a movis is the rating. I want NO R-rated movies in my home. This movie was suitable.

Movie Review: Life is Preferable to Death.
Summary: 4 Stars

To die is to live; death is nothing, sayth Lazarus whom Jesus brought back to life. Lazarus was the best character in this film, he looked like a "blithe spirit," as he explained what it is to die, to Barabbas. A blind man sees Barabba's face. There in the beginning, "tell us what it will be like: "a star, light in the sky, everything new, no more pain or grief, only happiness." Innocent people were stoned to death as blasphemy and "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone." They threw huge boulders, not merely rocks.

Barabbas did not try to stop this out-of-control crowd from killing the woman he loved; he'd gone to the devil, since coming out of prison mad (insane). I remembered the way, he said. Liberty was given to the wrong person in the name of civilization. The debt has been paid; we get rid of what gets in our way. He ends up going to arid Sicily where nothing is green like New Mexico, to the dark sulfur mines which cause blindness. He worked hard labor underground, with cruel guards using whips; emaciated prisoners with bad teeth.

Then, to Rome where we see prisoners being thrown into the lions' den at the Coliseum. It is similar to the Olympic games we will soon see the pagentry. And wasn't it spectular? There were elephants. Jack Palance, instructor of the Gladiator School, was handsome dressed in white with silver boots. There was Mark Allen as the Emperor pharoh looking like Richard Burton. He had his favorite brown horses pulling his chariot as he played games killing his slaves one at a time. He got a taste of his own medicine.

Barabbas had a remarkable persistence and ability to survive where others failed and eventually made him a free man. He took Sahak to be buried in the Catacombs. Why did he choose me? Show me the way. The whole world will soon be ablaze. Barabbas realizes he is a Christian. Peter, the apostle fisher of men, explains to him why he was chosen. The knowledge of God is the kingdom within us.

Movie Review: Christianity in its beginning
Summary: 5 Stars

great performance between actors, Quinn-Palance-Borgnine and their supporting actors for those who believe in the life after death concept. It holds the interest of the viewer to the end.

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Summary of Barabbas [VHS]

Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role, Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on biblical characters. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is so rewarding to the eye in Aldo Tonti's often dazzling cinematography.

Many scenes, such as Christ's crucifixion, are shot and staged like tableaux in a style reminiscent of the great masters of art. And director Richard Fleischer surpasses anything Ridley Scott achieved years later in Gladiator: he fills the huge arena--a vast Roman amphitheatre--with a gladiatorial school of hand-to-hand combat, a parade of elephants, and a den of lions, and then caps his production with a riveting and thrillingly mounted duel between Jack Palance, careering round the circumference of the arena in his chariot, and Barabbas dodging him on foot. --Adrian Edwards

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