How Much Money Did David And Bathsheba Movie Make In 1951

1951 pic by Henry King

David and Bathsheba
Original film poster
Directed by	Henry King
Written past	Philip Dunne
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Gregory Peck Susan Hayward Raymond Massey Kieron Moore James Robertson Justice
Cinematography	Leon Shamroy
Edited by	Barbara McLean
Music past	Alfred Newman Edward Powell
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release engagement	August 14, 1951 (1951-08-fourteen) (New York City)[1]
Running time	116 minutes
Land	United states of america
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$2.17 1000000[2]
Box function	$vii million (US/Canada rentals)[3]

David and Bathsheba is a 1951 historical Technicolor epic moving picture produced by 20th Century-Flim-flam and starring Gregory Peck as King David. It was directed past Henry Male monarch and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, with a screenplay by Philip Dunne and cinematography past Leon Shamroy.

The film follows King David's life and his relationship with Uriah's married woman Bathsheba, played by Susan Hayward. Goliath is portrayed past six ft 8 in (ii.03 g) Lithuanian wrestler Walter Talun.

Plot [edit]

King David is the second king of State of israel and returns to Jerusalem after a military victory over the Philistines. When the Ark of the Covenant stumbles on a cart, a soldier reaches out to steady it and is struck dead. While the prophet Nathan declares this the volition of God, a skeptical David pronounces it the result of a combination of heat-stroke and too much wine. David becomes attracted to Bathsheba who is the wife of Uriah, ane of David's soldiers.

The attraction is mutual although both know an thing would suspension the police of Moses. When Bathsheba discovers she is pregnant from the affair, David sends for Uriah hoping he will spend time with his wife to cover her pregnancy. David'southward wife Michal, who is aware of the thing, tells David that Uriah did not go habitation but slept at the castle as a sign of loyalty to his king. Frustrated, David orders Uriah to be placed on the front line and for the troops to withdraw leaving him to dice. Uriah is reported dead and David sends a acceleration to tell Bathsheba so they can program their marriage.

Nathan advises David the people are dissatisfied with his leadership and desire his sons to rule. Nathan tells David he has forgotten that he is a retainer of the Lord. Shortly after David marries Bathsheba, a drought hits Israel and the couple'due south newborn child dies. Nathan returns to tell David that God is displeased with his sin. All the same, he will non die as the constabulary demands, just he will be punished through misfortune in his family unit. David takes responsibility as he insists Bathsheba is blameless, simply the people want Bathsheba killed. David makes plans to save Bathsheba, but she tells David she is not clean-living equally they are both at error.

David is reminded of the Lord and quotes Psalm 23 every bit he plays his harp. David tells Bathsheba she will not dice and is willing to accept God'due south justice for himself. Repentant, David, seeking relief from the drought and forgiveness, reaches out to touch on the Ark presuming that he will die like the soldier. A clap of thunder is heard and there are flashbacks to David'due south youth depicting his anointing past Samuel and his boxing with Goliath. King David removes his hands from the Ark as rain falls on the dry land.

Bandage [edit]

• Gregory Peck every bit King David
• Susan Hayward as Bathsheba
• Kieron Moore as Uriah
• Raymond Massey equally Nathan
• James Robertson Justice as Abishai
• Jayne Meadows every bit Michal
• John Sutton as Ira
• Dennis Hoey as Joab
• Walter Talun as Goliath
• Francis Ten. Bushman as King Saul
• Leo Pessin as Young David
• Paul Newlan as Samuel
• Holmes Herbert as Jesse (uncredited)
• William Severn as Shepherd Boy
• Gwen Verdon as Specialty Dancer
• George Zucco as Egyptian Ambassador

Production [edit]

While Twentieth Century-Fox owned the rights to the 1943 book David written by Duff Cooper, the film was not based on that book. Darryl F. Zanuck had owned the rights to a 1947 Broadway play called Bathsheba. After the success of Cecil B. DeMille'due south Samson and Delilah (1949) for Paramount Pictures, Zanuck commissioned Philip Dunne to write a script based on Male monarch David.

Dunne's original concept was for a film that would embrace David'due south life in 3 main chapters: David as a boy fighting Goliath; a more mature David and his friendship with Jonathan ending with his affair with Bathsheba; and an older David and his relationship with his son Absalom. Dunne estimated that his treatment would brand a iv-hour motion picture, but Zanuck was not enthusiastic. Dunne and so pitched the idea of a film solely based on David and Bathsheba, which Zanuck loved.^[4] Dunne conceived the story as a modern play exploring the corruption of absolute power. The moving picture is noticeably devoid of the epic battles and panoramas oft seen in biblical movies. Zanuck opted to utilise stars already nether contract with Twentieth Century-Trick. Filming took place entirely in Nogales, Arizona from November 24, 1950 until January 1951 (with some additional material shot in February).^[1]

The musical score was written by Alfred Newman. For the bucolic scene with the shepherd boy, Newman used a solo oboe in the Lydian mode, drawing on long-established conventions linking the solo oboe with pastoral scenes and the shepherd'due south pipe. To underscore David'southward guilt-ridden turmoil in the Mountain Gilboa scene, Newman employed a vibraphone, which Miklós Rózsa had used in scoring Peck'due south popular Spellbound (1945).^[five]

Release [edit]

David and Bathsheba premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on Baronial xiv, 1951.^[6] The film subsequently opened in Los Angeles on August 30 before opening widely in September.^[ane] During the film'south worldwide release, the film was banned in Singapore equally the country's censorship board were troubled by the unflattering portrait of David, an important prophet in Islam, as a hedonist susceptible to sexual overtures.^[7]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

Past Jan 1952, David and Bathsheba had earned $7 million in box function rentals from the U.s.a. and Canada.^[3]

Disquisitional reaction [edit]

A. H. Weiler of The New York Times described the motion picture every bit "a reverential and sometimes majestic treatment of chronicles that accept lived iii millennia." He praised Dunne's screenplay and Peck'south "authoritative performance" only found that Hayward "seems closer to Hollywood than to the arid Jerusalem of the Bible."^[8] Abel Green of Diversity wrote: "This is a large motion picture in every respect. It has scope, pageantry, sexual practice (for all its Biblical background), cast names, colour—everything. It's a surefire boxoffice entry, one of the really 'big' pictures of the new selling flavour."^[9] Philip Chiliad. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the motion-picture show "leaves little to be desired" from the standpoint of production values with Peck "ingratiating" equally David and Hayward "a seductress with flaming tresses, in or out of the bath, and only her concluding contrition is a little difficult to believe."^[10]

Richard L. Coe of The Washington Postal service wrote: "On the whole, the picture suggests a Reader's Assimilate story expanded into a master'south thesis for the Ecole Copacabana."^[11] Harrison's Reports wrote, "The outstanding thing about the production is the magnificent functioning of Gregory Peck every bit David; he makes the characterization existent and human, endowing it with all the shortcomings of a human being who lusts for another's wife, only who is seriously penitent and prepared to shoulder his guilt. Susan Hayward, as Bathsheba, is beautiful and sexy, but her functioning is of no dramatic consequence."^[12] The Monthly Picture show Bulletin commented that the film had been made "with restraint and relative simplicity" compared to other historical epics, "and the playing of Gregory Peck in detail is competent. The whole movie, nonetheless, is emotionally and stylistically quite unworthy of its subject."^[13] Philip Hamburger of The New Yorker wrote that "the accessories notwithstanding, something is ponderously wrong with 'David and Bathsheba.' The fault lies, I suppose, in the attempt to make excessive enlargements of an essentially-simple story."^[xiv]

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Jon Solomon, author of The Aboriginal Globe in the Picture palace, found the film rather slow-paced in the first half before gaining momentum, and Peck "convincing as a one time-heroic monarch who must confront an angry constituency and absolve for his sins." He noted that this was different from other biblical epics in that the protagonist faced a religious and philosophical issue rather than the overdone armed forces or physical crisis.^[15]

Theologian David Garland and his married woman Diana argued: "Taking remarkable license with the story, the screenwriters inverse Bathsheba from the one who is ogled past David into David's stalker. ... [T]he movie David and Bathsheba, written, directed and produced past males, makes the cinematic Bathsheba conform to male fantasies nigh women."^[16] However, religious historian Adele Reinhartz constitute that by giving Bathsheba a more active role, "information technology reflects tensions and questions about gender identity in America in the backwash of Earth War Two, when women had entered the work force in large numbers and experienced a greater degree of independence and economical self-sufficiency. ...[Bathsheba] is not satisfied in the role of neglected wife and decides for herself what to exercise about it."^[17] Susan Hayward was afterwards quoted as having asked why the film was non called Bathsheba and David.^[xviii]

Awards and nominations [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "David and Bathsheba – Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Picture show Institute. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
2. ^ Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Steve (2010). Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History. Wayne State University Printing. p. 137. ISBN978-0-814-33008-ane.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Height Grossers of 1951". Variety. Jan nine, 1952. p. 70. Retrieved Jan three, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
4. ^ Server, Lee (1987). Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures. Main Street Printing. pp. 99–101. ISBN978-ane-555-62018-9 – via Internet Archive.
5. ^ Meyer, Stephen C. (2014). Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films. Indiana Academy Press. pp. 57–threescore. ISBN978-0-253-01459-vii.
6. ^ Munn, Michael (1998). Gregory Peck. London: Unhurt. p. 107. ISBN978-0-709-06265-iii.
7. ^ Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin (2009). Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN978-ane-134-01159-9.
8. ^ Weiler, A. H. (August 15, 1951). "A Biblical Tale is Unfolded". The New York Times. p. 38.
9. ^ Green, Abel (August 15, 1951). "Film Reviews: David and Bathsheba". Variety. p. vi – via Internet Archive.
10. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (August 31, 1951). "'David and Bathsheba' Night Saga of Sin and Atonement". Los Angeles Times. Part I, p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
11. ^ Coe, Richard Fifty. (September 14, 1951). "Too Much Bathsheba In Palace'due south 'Davdi' [sic]". The Washington Post. p. B4.
12. ^ "'David and Bathsheba' with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward". Harrison'south Reports. August 18, 1951. p. 131 – via Net Archive.
13. ^ "David and Bathsheba". The Monthly Motion-picture show Bulletin. 18 (213): 339. October 1951.
14. ^ Hamburger, Philip (August 25, 1951). "The Electric current Movie theatre". The New Yorker. pp. 66–67.
15. ^ Solomon, Jon (2001). The Aboriginal World in the Cinema. Yale University Printing. ISBN978-0-300-08337-viii.
16. ^ Garland, David E.; Garland, Diana R. "Bathsheba's Story: Surviving Abuse and Loss" (PDF). Baylor University. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
17. ^ Reinhartz, Adele (2013). "David and Bathsheba". Bible and Movie house: L Key Films. Routledge. pp. 79–80. ISBN978-0-415-677202.
18. ^ Babington, Peter William; Evans, Bruce (1993). "Henry Male monarch'southward 'David and Bathsheba (1951)". Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema. Manchester University Press. ISBN978-0-719-040306.

External links [edit]

• David and Bathsheba at IMDb
• David and Bathsheba at AllMovie
• David and Bathsheba at the TCM Motion picture Database
• David and Bathsheba at the American Film Institute Catalog

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Bathsheba_(film)

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