The Tunic

the Tunic ( The Wraps ) is a American Péplum left in 1953. It is especially known to be the first film in Cinémascope of the history of the cinema.

Synopsis

Marcellus is a military Tribun Roman. Sent to Jerusalem, it directs the unit which puts at execution the Crucifixion of Jesus de Nazareth. After the setting with death, it gains with the dice the tunic which equipped it. It is then the prey of nightmares and terrors which carry out it at the edge of the madness and which will lead it to put questions about the man that it made put at death.

Data sheet

French Title: the Tunic
original Title: The Wraps
Réalisation: Henry Koster
Scenario: Adapted novel éponyme of Lloyd C. Douglas, appeared in 1942
Music: Alfred Newman
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
Format, color by Technicolor:

Version 35 mm - 1.37:1 Cinemascope - Its 4 stereo tracks (Western Electric Recording)
Version 70 mm - 2.55:1 - Its 6 tracks

Kind: Péplum
Lasted: 135 minutes

Distribution

Richard Burton: The powerful orator Marcellus Gallio (French voice: Andre Falcon)
Jean Simmons: Diana (vf: Rolande Forest)
Victor Mature: Demetrius (vf: Jean Martinelli)
Michael Disavows: Simon Pierre Saint Pierre (vf: Marc Valbel)
Dean Jagger: Justus
Jay Robinson: The Roman Emperor Caligula (vf: Rene Bériard)
Richard Boone: Pontius Pilate, governor of the Judaea (vf: Serge Nadaud)
Holy Betta John: Miriam
Jeff Morrow : Paulus (vf: Marcel Grooves)
Ernest Thesiger: The Roman Emperor Tibère
Dawn Addams: Junia
Frank Pulaski : Quintus (vf: Claude Péran)
Ben Astar: Cleandre (vf: Pierre Morin)
Marc Snow: The salesman of the biddings (vf: Roger Rudel)
Donald C. Klune (second assistant-realizer): Jesus de Nazareth (which one does not see the face in film)

Distinctions

the film gained 2 Oscars:

Better decorations
Better costumes

Nominated with the Oscar for:

Better actor (Richard Burton)
Better photography (Leon Shamroy)
Better film (Henry Koster)

Golden Globe of the best dramatic film

Around film

the film was an immense success with the Box-office of the the United States with a ratio of 36 million USD.
One following summer turned at the same time as the Tunic : the Gladiators ( Demetrius and the Gladiators ), film carried out by Delmer Daves with Victor Mature in the title role (1954).
the Tunic does not hesitate to take freedoms with historical truth: if it is well Tibère which was emperor when Jesus was crucifié, the first Christians were not established so early with Rome and did not cause “disorders” before the reign of Claude.
In France, the Tunic left accompanied in first part of the short film by Marcel Ichac, Nouveaux Horizons (film), which constitutes first French film in Cinémascope.

External bond

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