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Hollywood Epics 2 – Cleopatra (1963)
Apart from this movie being recommended to me by a co-worker who’s got a very similar taste in movies to me, I came into this movie almost completely blind. Not only have I never seen this movie before, but I … Continue reading
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Hollywood Epics 1 – The Ten Commandments
The Hollywood Epic. These are movies that generally have high budgets, a large cast, and are grand in scope, but are not limited by genre. They also tend to be at least 2:30, and it’s not unusual for them to … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 plagues of egypt, academy award, ancient egypt, anne baxter, biblical epic, cecil b. demille, charlton heston, classic masterpieces, dorothea hulse, egypt, elmer bernstein, epic drama, hollywood epic, moses, movie review, movies, nefertari, nefretiri, paramount pictures, rameses, religious movie, sephora, yul brynner, yvonne de carlo
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Classic Masterpieces 4: Ben-Hur (1959)
Of the four movies I looked at this month, this was the one I’ve been looking forward to the most. I had only seen it once before, but I remember it being not only very impressive from a production standpoint … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, ben-hur, ben-hur: the tale of the christ, biblical epic, cathy o'donnell, charlton heston, christian movie, christopher fry, classic masterpieces, classic movies, epic drama, gore vidal, hugh griffith, jesus, judah ben-hur, karl tunberg, lew wallace, marie ney, martha scott, maxwell anderson, mgm, mgm studios, miklos rozsa, miriam, movie remake, movie review, movies, remake, roman, rome, sam zimbalist, tirzah, warner brothers, william wyler
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