The Greatest Story Ever Told

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Release year: 1965

Storyline

An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

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Awards

0 wins & 5 nominations

Did you know

• George Stevens was under pressure to hurry the John the Baptist sequence, which was shot at the Glen Canyon area. It was scheduled to become Lake Powell with the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the production held up the project.

• MGM spent upwards of $500,000 restoring the movie for its 2001 DVD release.

• Producer and director George Stevens habitually took at least an entire year to edit his movies, once he had achieved complete artistic control over them. He usually shot dozens of takes of each scene, varying his camera angles from take to take, so that he would have a great deal of choice in the editing suite. In this case, so much footage was amassed that the movie's opening date, originally planned for Christmas 1964, had to be postponed because the editing was not completed, even though he had finished shooting in the late summer 1963. The movie opened at Easter 1965 with a running time of three hours and forty-five minutes, making it one of the longest movies of all time. It was recut several times subsequently, and this version has not been seen since the 1960s.

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Technical specs

Sound mix

3 Channel Stereo

Aspect ratio

2.76 : 1, 2.76 : 1

Color

Color