TV Guide: Jeffrey Hunter

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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:00:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 06:00 AM FMC

Video: King of Kings (1961) - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:50:52 -0400

"Jeffrey Hunter stars in King of Kings (1961), an epic retelling of the life of Christ and how his teachings affected those around him."

Video: Key Witness - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:45 -0400

A street gang pressures the man whose testimony could put them behind bars in Key Witness (1960) starring Jeffrey Hunter and Dennis Hopper.

Video: Gold for the Caesars - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:31:27 -0400

A gladiator (Jeffrey Hunter) gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England in Gold for the Caesars (1964).

Video: King Of Kings

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:12:49 -0400

One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a loser, because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more temperamental actors walk all over him. Evidently, Ray had a very compliant and cooperative cast in King of Kings, inasmuch as the film emerged as one of the most disciplined Biblical epics ever made. Jeffrey Hunter is cast as Jesus Christ, delivering a wholly credible performance in this most taxing of roles (never mind the wags who referred to the film as I Was a Teenage Jesus). Siobhan McKenna is a radiant if somewhat overaged Mary; Hurd Hatfield offers a properly preening Pontius Pilate; Rip Torn portrays Judas more for the tragedy than the treachery; Robert Ryan (a personal favorite of Ray's) is one of the best John the Baptists you're ever likely to see; and Harry Guardino convincingly interprets Barabbas as a firebrand political extremist. The only false note in the casting is the MGM-dictated selection of teenaged Brigid Bazlen as Salome. The best aspect of the film is its handling of