Author Archive: Retro

This release directed by Irving Rapper is a dramatization of the Old Testament tale of Joseph, who ascends from slavery to the position of minister in the court of the pharaoh.

Multi-part dramatization of the life of St. Paul.

Dir. Raoul Walsh. A beautiful Judean maid is chosen by a powerful Persian king to replace his murdered queen. Lavish costume drama.

A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times – and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.

Mattathias and his five sons deliver their people, based on the Books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha.

Biblical epic covering the reign of the wicked King of the Jews from his failed alliance with Anthony to his death, shortly after his order to kill all newborn males in his kingdom. English dubbed. Dir. Viktor Tourjansky (billed as Arnaldo Genoino)

Dir. Lionello De Felice. Biblical epic about Emperor Constantine who in 303 AD becomes emperor of Gaul and defeats the Roman Army.