David and Bathsheba | Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward

David and Bathsheba | Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward | My DVD Video

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David and Bathsheba

	David and Bathsheba Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward 20th Century Fox, 2006 average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What an incredible cast.

This was a big budget movie for way back when. The script and actors were all incredible. The soundtrack was perfect as well. The classic Biblical story of David and Bathsheba is a perfect example of the love and forgiveness that God has for mankind. Very inspirational.

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The DVD that I purchased was in excellent conditiona and the price was very reasonable.

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This a film which teaches you a moral theme: It is better to thankful what God has given you than to seek after someone else treasures or in this case wife. Gregory Peck plays David the king ,and he soon finds out price of breaking one of God's commandments.

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Love versus circumstances.

King David, the hero of Israel, is performed very well by Gregory Peck, who falls in love with Bathsheba ( Susan Hayward ), a beautiful woman married to one of his army captains Uriah ( Kieron Moore ). David decides to send Uriah into a hard battle to get rid of a disturbing husband. This film is the story of a sin and a redemption, though nowadays more than 3000 years later, that sin would not exist, I think, and for this there would not be any reason to send Uriah to battle, besides going to battle was one of the best gifts that a warrior as Uriah could receive.
An abandoned married woman Bathsheba lives by King David and at times both of them can see by chance the other one at home, besides Bathsheba has no company, no love and no sex for years, because his busy husband likes to be at the war against the Philistines ( ancient inhabitants of Palestine ), and behaves as if his wife were only a flowerpot. After being a long time at the war front Uriah comes back only for a day and decides to sleep at the barracks of the army instead of staying at home that night with his wife, a big humiliation for his wife indeed!, unfortunately their marriage were settled by their parents. Both David and Bathsheba like each other, so David only wants to get that abandoned flower at his best before it withers. A bit aggresive and superstitious prophet Nathan ( played well by Raymond Massey ) fights for justice and accuses David of living in sin, of causing the destruction ( ?! ) of Israel, and moves the mob to trow stones at Bathsheba, according to law. The ending of the movie is fair and nice, both lovers are forgiven by God's love and can live as a true married couple for ever.
The technicolor of the film is wonderful.

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Henry King handles the powerful story with skill!

To some, this Biblical film is a story of judgment and condemnation... Others see it as a story of grace, restoration, and hope... It is actually both - Henry King illustrates the portrait of a mighty monarch almost destroyed by his passion, his downward spiral of sin, and his upward climb of healing..

'David and Bathsheba' is an emotional movie full of vividly memorable characters who attain mythic status while retaining their humanity... Henry King handles the powerful story, taken from the Old Testament, with skill...

David, 'the lion of Judah,' having stormed the walls of Rabgah, saves the life of one of his faithful warriors Uriah (Kieron Moore), and returns to Jerusalem...

Back at his court, his first wife complains of neglect, and offends him for being a shepherd's son, distinguishing herself for being the daughter of King Saul...

One evening, and while walking on the terrace of his palace which evidently held a commanding view of the neighborhood, David's eyes happened to alight upon a young lady who was taking a refreshing bath... She was beautiful and attractive... David could not take his eyes off her... He finds out later on that she was the wife of one of his officers...

Sending for her, he discovers that she, too, is unhappy in her marriage... By this point, it's apparent that David's intentions shift from an interest in taking Bathsheba as a wife, to just plain taking Bathsheba... As usual, sin had its consequences, and David hadn't planned on that possibility...

When a drought sweeps the land and there is a threat of famine, David suspects that the Lord is punishing him and his people for his sin... But when Bathsheba tells him that she is pregnant and fears that she may be stoned to death according to the law of Moses, David tries to cover up his sin...

He sends word to Joab, the commander of his army, and ordered him to send to him Bathsheba's husband... David did something that was abominable in God's sight... He sends the man to the front line where he would be killed...

The soldier is indeed killed and with him out of the way, David marries his beloved Bathsheba in full regal splendor...

God punishes the couple when Bathsheba's child dies soon after birth... Meanwhile, a mighty famine has spread throughout the land and the Israelites - led by Nathan - blame the King for their plight... They storm the palace and demand that Bathsheba pays for her sin...

Peck plays the compassionate king whose lustful desire outweighed his good sense and integrity..

Hayward as Bathsheba, is a sensitive woman who begins to believe that every disaster occurring in her life is the direct result of her adultery... The sequence of her bath which could have been a great moment in Biblical film history, is badly mishandled, and the viewers eyes are led briefly to Hayward's face and shoulders...

Raymond Massey appeared as Nathan the Prophet, sent by God to rebuke David after his adultery with Bathsheba; Gwyneth Verdon is Queen Michal who tries to resist the ambition and greed that have become integral to David's personality and kingship; ex-silent screen idol, Francis X. Bushman, had a brief part as King Saul...

The best moments of the film were: The Ark en route to its permanent home when God breaks a young soldier who tries to touch the sacred object; the defining moment in David's life when he confesses his sin and is prepared to accept his punishment of death; and for the film's climax, inserting it as a flashback, David remembering his fight with the giant Goliath...

With superb color photography and a masterly music score, 'David and Bathsheba' won Oscar nominations in the following categories: Music Scoring, Art and Set Direction, Cinematography, Story and Screenplay, and Costume Design..

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