[ReformationFan]

At 8PM E.S.T., Turner Classic Movies will air the hard to find Biblical cinema epic, "The Big Fisherman". Based upon a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas(author of "The Robe", this film has never been released on home video, Blu-ray or DVD. I remember seeing it as a child. Howard Keel plays Simon Peter but the story is as much about Arabian princess Farah, the daughter of King Herod Antipas(played by Herbert Lom of "Pink Panther"/Chief Inspector Dreyfus fame) who wishes to avenge her mother's humiliation when the tetrach divorced and left her for his half-brother Philip's wife Herodias(played by the lovely Martha Hyer, typecast in yet another of her evil woman roles) as it is about the big fisherman. It's the only religious epic produced by the Walt Disney studios and the first film shot in Panavision.

[Argus]

I’m tuning in.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’m watching it now and I don’t see any Panavision but pan and scan.

[steve86]

We’re going to miss that — take a walk time here on the west coast — but I see that “Francis of Assisi” will be on at 8:15 PDT and we’ll catch that.