In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Richard Burton | ... | Marcellus Gallio | |
| Jean Simmons | ... | Diana | |
| Victor Mature | ... | Demetrius | |
| Michael Rennie | ... | Peter | |
| Jay Robinson | ... | Caligula | |
| Dean Jagger | ... | Justus | |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Sen. Gallio | |
| Richard Boone | ... | Pontius Pilate | |
| Betta St. John | ... | Miriam | |
| Jeff Morrow | ... | Paulus | |
| Ernest Thesiger | ... | Emperor Tiberius | |
| Dawn Addams | ... | Junia | |
| Leon Askin | ... | Abidor | |
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Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
4 December 1953 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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$5,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
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4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording) (5.0) (L-R)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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This film contains approximately 517 transitions (edits, dissolves etc) in about 131 minutes of action. This equates to an average shot length of about 15 seconds. See more »Goofs
In the sword fight between Marcellus Gallio and the Roman commander, there is a shot of Gallio holding his sword to the commander's throat, while the commander is on the ground. The sword is an obvious prop that is rounded on the end like a spatula. See more »Alternate Versions
The widescreen version carries the credit "Twentieth Century-Fox presents A Cinemascope Production" before the title actually appears onscreen. The "flat" version, sometimes now shown on American Movie Classics, simply says "Twentieth Century-Fox presents 'The Robe'". See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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There seems to be little interest in this movie today but when originally released in 1953, it created a sensation and threatened, for a while, to replace "Gone With the Wind" as the highest-grossing film in history. And it was the first movie in CinemaScope -- "The Modern Entertainment Miracle You See Without the Use of Glasses!" Its opening half still plays well, even some 50 years later, but the second half tries to convincingly present the religious conversion of Marcellus -- a tricky proposition since it deals with an internal process -- and the result plays like a well-intentioned but rather simplistic Sunday sermon. Richard Burton was Oscar-nominated for his work but is clearly outshone by, of all people, Victor Mature as the slave, Demetrius. The scene of a sweaty, nearly naked Demetrius groaning and writhing under torture in a Roman dungeon helped establish Mature as "the back that launched a thousand whips." (The book "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies" is dedicated to him.) Mature played Demetrius again in one of the rare big-budget sequels of the 1950s, "Demetrius and the Gladiators," which wasn't very good but which was livelier and more "fun" than its pious predecessor.