Movie : The Bible – In the Beginning (1966 film)

Movie : The Bible – In the Beginning (1966 film)



Director – John Huston
Writers - Vittorio Bonicelli, Christopher Fry
Release Date - 28 September 1966
Genre - Drama
Tagline - In the Beginning…

Cast:-

Michael Parks ……………… Adam
Ulla Bergryd ……………….. Eve
Richard Harris ……………. Cain
John Huston ………………. Noah / Voices of God, The Serpent / Offscreen Narrator
Stephen Boyd …………….. Nimrod
George C. Scott ………….. Abraham
Ava Gardner ………………. Sarah
Peter O’Toole …………….. The Three Angels
Zoe Sallis ………………….. Hagar
Gabriele Ferzetti………….. Lot
Eleonora Rossi Drago…… Lot’s wife
Franco Nero ………………. Abel
Pupella Maggio ………….. Noah’s wife
Robert Rietty ……………… Abraham’s steward
Peter Heinze ………………. Shem
Plot:-

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. (Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac). An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film’s director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve (Michael Parks and Ulla Bergryd) and continue on to Cain (Richard Harris) and the murder of Abel (Franco Nero). Next, we visit Noah (John Huston) and his ark with its spectacular flood sequence. Then we come to the story of Nimrod, King of Babel (Stephen Boyd), the emergence of man’s vanity and the heights to which it could aspire if unchecked. Finally we cover Abraham (George C. Scott), a mystic who spoke personally with God, a leader of men, a builder of nations, a pioneer and a warrior and Sarah (Ava Gardner). At the time she conceived her first child, the event being forecast by an Angel of the Lord. Three such Heavenly Messengers (all portrayed by Peter O’Toole) appeared in the course of events which befell Abraham and Sarah.


Movie Clip of the film – The Bible