Jesus

Produced by Bill Bright, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade Cecil B. DeMille to remake his silent KING OF KINGS (1927) and later founded the Campus Crusade for Christ, and John Heyman, who had previously produced a series of 15-minute shorts based on Bible stories, this uninspired film recounts the life and death of Jesus Christ (British stage actor Brian Deacon) as told in the gospel of St. Luke. Shot on location in Israel with a largely Israeli cast, including Yemenite Jewish extras whom the filmmakers believed most resembled the people of Jesus' time, the film was vetted by religious scholars and narrated by Alexander Scourby, the voice of The American Foundati...