The Robe (Blu-ray)
The first motion picture in CinemaScope--the modern miracle you see without glasses!
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature & Michael Rennie | |
Performer: | Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger, Torin Thatcher, Richard Boone, Jeff Morrow & Ernest Thesiger | |
Directed by | Henry Koster | |
Edited by | Barbara McLean | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Dunne | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman | |
Cinematography by | Leon Shamroy | |
Art Direction by | George W. Davis | |
Story by | Lloyd C. Douglas | |
Produced by | Frank Ross |
Entertainment Reviews:
Turgid direction, probably not helped by a necessarily cautious approach to framing, is married to creaky dialogue and stiff performances to render this of purely historical interest.
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Time Out
Everything, including performances, is turned up to eleven, and what it lacks in finesse it more than makes up for in sheer spectacle.
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Film4
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Stick with The Ten Commandments, or try watching Fellini Satyricon instead.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
Tthe mightiness of masses and the forms of heroes have never loomed so large as they do in this studied demonstration, projected by CinemaScope. But an unwavering force of personal drama is missed in the size and the length of the show.
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New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Had it not been the first film shot in CinemaScope, very few people would probably still be talking about The Robe.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: C --
Important historically as the first CinemaScope feature film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/10 --
It's hard to actively hate anything as deeply earnest as The Robe, but it is a long, tough sit.
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Antagony & Ecstasy