It's a classy-looking work all around: Franco Zeffirelli directed, Anthony Burgess wrote the script, Maurice Jarre wrote its score, etc. Instead of that film's matinee idol Jesus (Jeffrey Hunter), the miniseries casts Robert Powell, who in full makeup looks like he stepped out of a Renaissance painting.Īs usual with ITC's Sir Lew Grade, no expense was spared and the production resembles a latter-day theatrical roadshow more than a television film. Despite its all-star cast, for instance, Jesus of Nazareth steers clear of the sometimes goofy, distracting stunt casting found in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), mostly famously John Wayne as the Roman centurion with the single line, "Truly, this man was the Son of Gawd." It's less artful in some respects than King of Kings (1961), but improves upon the casting of Jesus. A handsomely made, finely acted miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth (1977) plays a lot like a distillation of the best components from all of the biblical epics of the 1940s-‘60s that had preceded it while generally avoiding those movies' flaws.
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