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Information
- Year
- 1954
- Runtime
- 142 min.
- Director
- Victor Saville
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 4.6
- Votes *
- 900
- Checks
- 78
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:78)
- Favs/dislikes
- 0:4
Top comments
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Siskoid
While I'm normally intrigued by what biblical side stories got the epic film treatment, The Silver Chalice fails on too many levels to warrant recommendation. It's the movie you think you want to see because it's Paul Newman's first, but he's as much a cardboard cut-out as most characters in the story. In fact, the story of the silversmith who forged the Holy Grail (but not really, he's tasked with making a fancy chalice AROUND the original cup) is the least interesting thing about this, and really doesn't go anywhere. If you jettisoned all that and made it only about Simon the Magician (Jack Palance) and his bid to become the next Messiah using magic tricks, you might have something. The character is extreme enough to justify the film's weirdly abstracted sets and costumes. Unfortunately, the film has to return again and again to Newman's character and his boring problems. 5 years ago