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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2002
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Quinn | |
Performer: | Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman, Arthur Kennedy, Valentina Cortese & Michael Gwynn | |
Directed by | Richard Fleischer | |
Edited by | Raymond Poulton | |
Written by | Christopher Fry, Nigel Balchin, Diego Fabbri & Ivo Perilli | |
Composition by | Mario Nascimbene | |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis | |
Director of Photography: | Aldo Tonti |
Entertainment Reviews:
Problems of dubbing and pacing and a lack of scene-to-scene variety weigh the movie down, but Christopher Fry's pointed and intelligent free adaptation of Pär Lagerkvist's 1950 novel resists grandiloquence.
New Yorker
Rating: 4/5 --
An extremely underrated Biblical epic.
Fantastica Daily
Rating: B --
Lacking the Circus Maximus spectacle of its famous predecessor, Barabbas compensates with nuanced acting from Anthony Quinn
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Old School Reviews
One might be likelier to forgive this if the film's declared intentions were less high-minded.
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The Spectator
Like Fleischer's oeuvre as a whole, it's ripe for reconsideration-the Greatest Story Ever Told has been Retold and Retold, but Barabbas brings it back from the dead.
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Film Comment Magazine
Product Description:
When thief and murderer Barabbas (Anthony Quinn) is freed by the people of Judea rather than Jesus of Nazareth, the criminal struggles to understand why he was chosen to live. Rachel (Silvanno Mangano), the woman he loves, becomes a follower of Jesus, whom she believes has risen from the tomb. Barabbas, however, is unconvinced. Caught preaching, Rachel is stoned to death. Barabbas is sentenced to life working in the sulphur mines. Years later, when Barabbas is chained to Sarak (Vittorio Gassman), a Christian, the mines collapse. Barabbas and Sahak escape, and are taken to Rome and trained to fight. In the Coliseum, Barabbas eventually faces the villainous Torvald (Jack Palance). Academy Award-winning director Richard Fleischer's fictional look at one of the New Testament's most stirring passages showcases strong performances all around.
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- Sales Rank: 20,118
- UPC: 043396077508
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