The Robe

[1953, Movie, NR, 135 mins]

The Robe: Review

Fighting for fashion, in widescreen no less. A heavy Biblical dirge, bulging with blandfilmitis bigbudgetitis, THE ROBE was the first film in CinemaScope, Hollywood's answer to the threat of TV. Audiences (primarily Catholic schoolchildren dragged kicking and screaming by their teachers) dutifully poured into theaters to watch orgy-weary Roman officer turned luminous Christian Richard Burton (very stiff in a part he considered prissy and silly) and his equally shiny and suff... read more

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Year: 1953
Rated NR

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Richard Burton: Marcellus Gallio
Jean Simmons: Diana
Victor Mature: Demetrius
Michael Rennie: Peter
Jay Robinson: Caligula
Dean Jagger: Justus

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