Summaries

Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Its main highlights are the Garden of Eden, the first brothers, Noah and his family obeying God to build an ark for the Flood and Abraham's attempted sacrifice of 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 our first ancestral parents and continue on to Cain murdering his younger brother Abel. Next, we visit Noah and his ark with its spectacular flood sequence. Then we come to the story of Nimrod, King of Babel, the emergence of man's vanity and the heights to which it could aspire if unchecked. Finally we cover Abraham, a mystic who spoke personally with God, a leader of men, a builder of nations, a pioneer and a warrior and Sarah. At the time she conceived her first child, the event being forecast by an Angel of the Lord. Three such Heavenly Messengers appeared in the course of events which befell Abraham and Sarah.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • implied male nudity
  • lucifer morningstar character
  • abraham character
  • biblical epic
  • adam character
Genres
  • Drama
  • Family
Release date Sep 27, 1966
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) G
Countries of origin United States Italy
Language English
Filming locations Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Production companies Twentieth Century Fox Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica Seven Arts Productions

Box office

Budget $18000000

Tech specs

Runtime 2h 54m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 2.20 : 1

Synopsis

All Filters