Les Esclaves de Babylone

Oddly enough in 1953 three biblical epics were made as such THE ROBE, SALOME and Slaves of Babylon, two of them sponsored by Columbia, actually this genre was booming since the smashing success of SAMSON AND DELILAH, follow up by DAVID AND BATHSEBHA bringing crowds at box office at its time, then Sam Kastman teams up William Castle as director and Richard Conte as leading role in the infamous chapter of Jewish people as they called "Babylonian Captivity".

Of course as usually the producer enforced an inaccurate storyline where the Jewish have been mistreated by Babylonian and also forbidden to practice their faith, such things never occurred by many sources, to vouch for the prophet Daniel was King Nebuchadnezzar's counselor, so upon these facts the picture falls apart, worst on small budge production with poorest sets, fake battles that involving a few soldiers in a pale acting and finally the miscasting of Richard Conte is visible, without forget the tiny Cyrus portraited by Terry Kilburn, in fact the unique character that bring a reliable persona is the flaming Princess Panthea by the gorgeous Linda Christian.

All those painted backdrops used in a noticeable and over-shooting scenario as Vasquez Rocks means a lack of creativity of the producer, allied in a weakest special effects, all this together undermine the offering at lowest point, it never was release in Brazil in any format, to re-watch it again I've to appeal for all-weather friend Youtube that has available a fine print of this colorful biblical epic history.

Thanks for reading.

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First watch: 1993 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 5.25.