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David And Bathsheba

1951, Movie, NR, 116 mins

David And Bathsheba: Review

Big-budget Biblical yucky muck. Peck plays stoic King David, fierce in battle but frail where temptresses trod. Having saved a cuckold in battle, he returns home to nurse a wound, instead nurses a raging... torch for the cuckold's wife, tempestuous Susan Hayward, acting within an inch of her insured head of tossing tendrils, whom he spots taking a bath. He, wisely, we say, dumps the first wife of his harem---the shrewish Jayne Meadows--that's right, Jayne Meadows! The cuckol... read more leave a comment