The Robe

Turgid direction, probably not helped by a necessarily cautious approach to framing, is married to creaky dialogue and stiff performances to render this of purely historical interest. ( Read More )

Kim Newman

It has some minor swordfights, but little action the ridiculous climax has Rich and Jean walking meekly away to be martyred by arrows as the music swells into huge hallelujahs.Overblown melodramatic biblical nonsense. ( Read More )

Dennis Schwartz

This Bible story, with its mix of fictional and historical characters, cant even measure up to the doggerel ridden shallow Bible epic of The Ten Commandments. ( Read More )

Stick with THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, or try watching FELLINI SATYRICON instead. ( Read More )

James Kendrick

Like all the subsequent sword and sandal Hollywood movies of the 1950s and early 1960s, there is something inherently hokey about The Robe, with its historically accurate, yet ridiculously clean and well pressed costumes and its insistence on then contemporary hair styles that never allow a single strand to be out of place (to realize just how insistent this style was, note that even the great Stanley Kubrick couldnt get past it in Spartacus). ( Read More )