Film · 20th Century · 1953
Pass it on
The Robe
69Worth an evening.
Faith is the plot, and the wide screen is the other thing the studio was selling.
The review
A Roman tribune who helped crucify Jesus wins Christ's robe in a dice game and cannot live with what he did. He and a slave become believers under an emperor who wants them stopped. Faith is the plot. I knew that before it started, and the film does not dodge it. The other event is the screen. This was the first CinemaScope picture, and the rentals of the time put it among the biggest films yet made.
You can feel the studio hoping the width will carry the night. It carries part of it. Then you are left with a man who cannot keep a prize he won by taking part in a killing. The slave who believes with him is not furniture. Come for the new shape of a movie and you can leave early. Stay if you want the misery of a man the robe will not let alone.
Journal
Keep The Robe in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
To Kill a Mockingbird
81 instead of 69
To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.
The eight
- 6Industry
His soldiering is the crucifixion he then cannot live with.
- 4Household
The changed life is his and a slave's, not a parent's or a child's.
- 9Piety
Conscience will not let him keep the robe or the killing that won it.
- 8Courage
He and a slave stay believers while an emperor wants them stopped.
- 7Republic
They owe a faith the emperor has already set himself against.
- 7Temperance
The dice win a prize, and the story makes him put that prize down.
- 8Truth
He cannot lie to himself about the crucifixion he helped to do.
- 6Stewardship
What lasts is a belief the emperor did not manage to stop.
Where to watch
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