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Film · 20th Century · 1953

The Robe

Name: The Robe scores 69 — Live Historic
Item: The Robe
Rating: 69
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69Worth an evening.

Faith is the plot, and the wide screen is the other thing the studio was selling.

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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

6
Industry
His soldiering is the crucifixion he then cannot live with.
4
Household
The changed life is his and a slave's, not a parent's or a child's.
9
Piety
Conscience will not let him keep the robe or the killing that won it.
8
Courage
He and a slave stay believers while an emperor wants them stopped.
7
Republic
They owe a faith the emperor has already set himself against.
7
Temperance
The dice win a prize, and the story makes him put that prize down.
8
Truth
He cannot lie to himself about the crucifixion he helped to do.
6
Stewardship
What lasts is a belief the emperor did not manage to stop.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Enoch Arden

79 instead of 69

Enoch Arden is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.