The first true American Passion Play motion picture was released October 1912Īnd was filmed in Palestine. Looking at two major versions of General Wallace’s novel in Part Three. The Court ruling established the precedent that all movieĬompanies had to obtain permission to use any copyrighted material. The Estate of General Lew Wallace and a lawsuit was filed against the filmmaker Industry ignored regularly to have source material. Movie was in violation of copyright laws which the early motion picture Minute version of General Lew Wallace’s “Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ”. In 1907 American’s saw the first motion picture inspired by the New Testament. Motion Pictures Based Upon Biblical Personages This article will be divided into five subsections and I will use motion pictures I have seen to illustrate each topic. The Motion Picture Studios to avoid controversy and charges postulated what was a better proof of being a loyal God Loving American than making movies based upon the Bible? It would take Kirk Douglas standing up for Dalton Trumbo who had written the screenplay for his "Spartacus" and the excellent Otto Preminger motion picture "Exodus" to break this in 1960. Cobb, Pete Seeger and Charlie Chaplin to name just a few of. The Black List included such names as Lillian Hellman, Lee Grant, Paul Robeson, Eddie Albert, John Ireland, Richard Attenborough, Lee J. Many Americans the committee investigated would leave the country. While not taking into consideration that during World War 2 Soviet Russia was our alley and joining the Party might have meant something entirely different than after the War and who patriotically joined. Which accused many innocent people of being members of the Communist Party. Then aforementioned House Committee on Un-American Activities led the infamous Blacklist. Their characters were investigators for the House Committee on Un-American Activities looking to break a Communist Cell in Hawaii.
Of course leading the crusade against Soviet domination on the Home Front was John Wayne assisted by his friend James Arness in "Big John McLain". Some titles was very obvious such as "Atomic City", "I Married a Communist" and "The Communist Blue Print for America". The still very good low budgeted "Invasion U.S.A." was about how a Communist take over of the United States affected several people. At the movies many motion pictures produced during this period had Communist subplots. and Civil Defense Public Service films even explaining what to do during a Nuclear Attack. Other anti-Communist television programming included "A Man Called X", shows like "The Crusader" and "The O.S.S."/ Along with "Bill Smith U.S.A." and "Secret File U.S.A". Philbrick, Whose Best Seller book of the same name explained those "Three Lives" as Philbrick being an average American Family Man, an active member of the Communist Party, but an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A major show was Richard Carlson in "I Led Three Lives" about Herbert A. Just look at a list of early 1950's television programming. The main driving engine was actually Joseph Stalin and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.ĭuring this five year period American's were experiencing a created Cold War fear visualizing "Papa" Joe Stalin's turning every citizen into "Godless" Communists. The reasoning behind there creation and two other forms the revival of major Musicals and Western had a direct Political motivation. The majority of the films I am speaking about appeared between 1949, when I was just turning four years of age, to 1956. Christian films are an interesting genre in themselves and sometime I might look at there creation. There are varied reasons for such motion pictures including Christian film makers using their specific beliefs, but this article is about "Hollywood the Dream Factory". Within this article I will pick selected motion pictures to illustrate how Hollywood rewrites the Bible for entertainment and profit. The subject on this article could fill a book and I've seen a few. I am not an authority on the Bible, or one on Hollywood. As I was watching Ridley Scott's 2014 "Exodus: Gods and Kings" I found myself comparing some of the scenes with Cecil B, DeMille's 1956 "The Ten Commandments" and those thoughts led to this article.
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