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Jack Palance | Simon The Magician | |
Virginia Mayo | Helena | |
Paul Newman | Basil | |
Pier Angeli | Deborra | |
Walter Hampden | Joseph of Arimathea | |
Joseph Wiseman | Mijamin | |
Alexander Scourby | Saint Luke | |
Lorne Greene | Saint Peter | |
David J. Stewart | Adam | |
Herbert Rudley | Linus | |
E.G. Marshall | Ignatius | |
Mort Marshall | Benjie | |
Booth Colman | Hiram | |
Terence de Marney | Sosthene | |
Robert Middleton | Idbash | |
Ian Wolfe | Theron | |
Lawrence Dobkin | Ephraim | |
Philip Tonge | Ohad | |
Albert Dekker | Kester | |
Beryl Machin | Eulalia | |
Donald Randolph | Selech | |
Abdullah Abbas | Cameleer | |
Patrick Aherne | Soldier in Chase | |
Fay Alexander | Tumbler | |
Hy Anzell | Workman in Joseph's Courtyard |
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Producer | Lesser Samuels
Victor Saville |
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Writer | Lesser Samuels
Thomas B. Costain |
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Cinematography | William V. Skall
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Musician | Franz Waxman
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The epic film that launched Paul Newman's screen career. He looks like Marlon Brando, some reviewers said of this movie's 29-year-old star, but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance, Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era, it focuses on an ill-fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) - and threatened in his work by a power-mad sorcerer (Jack Palance) bent on overturning Christianity and becoming his own "true messiah". The Silver Chalice's cast also includes Lorne Greene, E.G. Marshall and a blonde Natalie Wood. But Newman is the movie's heart. "This young man" director Victor Saville predicted, "is destined for great things". |
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