The Bible | | Cast : | John Huston, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris | | Director : | John Huston | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 28, 1966 | | DVD Released Date : | March 11, 2003 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | VERY CLOSE | Content
 | After watching this video I examined the Bible and it is very close to the scriptures in accuracy. It helps give the Bible life so that you can see the reality of creation, and vividly picture these true events that occured thousands of years ago in our history. This is truly a video the whole family can enjoy together. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | The Bible | Content
| excelent movie gives a great overvier of the bible and is a great help for people to learn more about it. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 03, 2005 | | Summary | Mankind needs a Savior | Content
| I watched the movie and compared it to the first twenty-two chapters of Genesis and found the movie is accurate with the Bible. The movie shows man's helpless condition such as the ark that Noah built which is symbolic of Jesus of Nazareth being the Christian's ark of safety. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 11, 2005 | | Summary | A good retelling of the stories | Content
| John Huston's "The Bible" retells the first 22 chapters of the book of Genesis. It is the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Able, Noah and his arc, of the Tower of Bable, and of Abraham. The movie has been panned by critics far and wide, and I really do not know why. "The Bible" is a good movie, with great stories (with as many stories as there are, no one is more than about 45 minutes, even though it's a three hour movie), good production values (loved the Tower and the Arc was immpressive for the mid 1960s. Yes, the acting was a little over the top, but no more so than in any other of it's time in that era. It stared Ava Gardner, Ursula Andress, Peter O' Toole, Michael Parks, and many more. Goerge C. Scott was the stand out for me as Abraham. Yes, John Huston did do a good job as Noah, and that segment was the best of the bunch. I saw a over reaching theme in "The Bible"; obedience to God. Adam and Eve disobayed God, and they (and all of mankind afterward) suffered for it. In successive generations, man obayed God, and was spared (Noah built the boat, and Abraham almost sacrificed his son), or the disobayed and paid the price (Cain's murder and Lot's wife looking back at Sodom's destruction). If there was any problem I had, it was that in showing what was going on in Sodom and Gomorha, it got a little strange about what was going on. Younger children probably will not understand what is going on, and may ask some awkward questions. But other than that I think "The Bible" is highly under rated. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 18, 2004 | | Summary | What would it have been like to have been there??? | Content
| John Huston's The Bible...In The Beginning is wonderful movie that captures on film the emotion and drama of the first books of the Bible. From the beautiful images of Adam and Eve in Eden - including the strange shape/figure of the temptor in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - up to Abraham's life everything here rings true. Yes, he doesn't follow the Bible to the letter, but that is a minor criticism since it was the director's intention to tell the story in a realistic and believable manner. One person here said it was "silly" that the temptor of Adam and Eve wasn't in the form of a serpent/snake. Well, I say that it would have been even "sillier" to see a snake moving its jaws and having human speech coming out of its mouth than the presentation in the movie. John Huston's role as Noah is fantastic, being one of the highlights of the film but pay attention to the people playing his sons and daughter in laws and appreciate how well they were.
Though some here say that George C. Scott over acted in his portait of Abraham, I say that you don't have an appreciation of true drama. In fact, those who call the movie slow fail to capture the same thing. This is a dramatic movie, with little in the way of being "exciting." The Ten Commandments is a good movie, but come on! You can't hardly compare the two. Huston went to great lengths to actually present this as if we were viewing the past and to my mind, he succeeded greatly. Yes, John Huston was an atheist but he shows an understanding and deep-seated appreciation for the people and the material that is hard to find in many people who claim to be all about the Bible. It makes me wonder what kind of movie these people would have made had they had the same resources. John Huston was one of the greats and I simply love this movie. If corny, largely ficticious movies are your cup of tea, then stick with the Ten Commandments but if you want intellegent, fine drama you would do very well to give this movie a watch. |
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