[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I saw this movie a few years ago. Long on story telling short on Biblical reality. Still a good epic.

The homosexuality is lightly hinted at, but being an early “family film”, it will pass over most people’s heads.

[BenLurkin]

The Sodom and Gomorrah scenes from “The Bible” were a lot more disturbing. Particularly creepy was casting Peter O’Toole as the Angel noncom...

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[ReformationFan]

‘The homosexuality is lightly hinted at, but being an early “family film”, it will pass over most people’s heads.’

Yep, the censors and cultural restraints of the time period it was made in would not have allowed it to be move overt and graphic.

[Fiji Hill]

I saw this movie a few years ago. Long on story telling short on Biblical reality. Still a good epic.

That sounds typical of a movie from the sword-and-sandal era that preceded the spaghetti westerns.

[CatherineofAragon]

Insane, isn’t it? Back then they softpedaled the homo aspect to avoid offending families; now they don’t want to anger the homos themselves.

Thanks for the responses. It sounds like a movie worth seeing.