He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001) (V)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Michael Arick

Genre:

Documentary | Short

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Michael Anderson Jr.	...	Himself - Actor (archive footage)
Frank I. Davis	...	Himself - UA executive (archive footage)
Ann Del Valle	...	Herself - Publicist (archive footage)
John Del Valle	...	Himself - Publicist (archive footage)
Robert Gottschalk	...	Himself - Panavision exec (archive footage)
Charlton Heston	...	Himself - Actor (archive footage)
Harold F. Kress	...	Himself (archive footage) (as Harold Kress)
Rouben Mamoulian	...	Himself - Director (archive footage)
Carl Sandburg	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Stevens	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Stevens Jr.	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Veitch	...	Himself - Asst Director (archive footage)
Toni Vellani	...	Himself - Art consultant (archive footage)
Max von Sydow	...	Himself - Actor (archive footage)
Shelley Winters	...	Herself (archive footage)
Fred Zinnemann	...	Himself - Director (archive footage)

Also Known As:

He Walks in Beauty (USA)
He Walks in Beauty: The Making of 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (USA)

Runtime:

48 min | 41 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Trivia:

This documentary is featured on the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD for The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

Movie Connections:

Edited from The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Response to original comments

The Greatest Story Ever Told is one of my favourite films, and also one of the most critically underrated. I saw it first in 1965 at the Casino Cinerama cinema in London. Being a Christian I was deeply moved, especially by Max Von Sydow as Jesus. Since then I have three separate video versions. I am eager to discover the 240 minute version. But I see that the DVD, containing the documentary "He Walks in Beauty" has no UK release dates, which is very unfair since I suspect there is a core of fans in England who like me love admire and respect the film and what the great director George Stevens was trying to do. As Max Von Sydow said: "No film like this can please everybody so in a sense it was a failure, but it was a very beautiful and a very moving failure."