DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (1951) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey,
Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows
A former shepherd, now the king of Israel, fiddles around with the wife of an army commander and learns what a harsh, unforgiving bastard that Old Testament God can be. A slow, stately biblical romance from the time before CinemaScope, which didn't stop the marketing department at 20th Century Fox from calling it "A Goliath of a Motion Picture!" Slog your way through it if you want to, or to save time, just read the Second Book of Samuel.
