Solomon & Sheba

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Well, besides being a big ham, unless of course you are a big fan of the Bible and the Scriptures, this is a worthless effort in story telling. It is just Big Circus meets Big Actors. So, premises apart, and taken into consideration that it is a Yul Brynner / Gina Lollobrigida vehicle, it is still watchable, especially for its "saucy" values of the time (1959). Stick to "The King and I" or other better pictures, like "The Magnificent Seven" and even the Sci-Fi thriller "Westworld", if you really like to see Yul at his best. Nowadays we have much more specific indications on who Solomon was and how the Queen of Sheba came into play. There is even poor George Sanders standing by, lending a hand at this. It is barely good enough for Popcorn and Soda and for keeping your kids laughing for a couple of hours in front of your TV set. Other than that, consider, it is cheap, so if you decide to buy it, it won't be a big dent in your purse, just do not expect something really intellectual out of this one.

Poor man, he must have been desperate in doing so. A bit like "The Prodigal", this is by no means a serious attempt at translating the Bible into a historic document. As said, cheap. There are even sources that really and strongly doubt the two ever actually met. Image, Screen Ratio and Sound as conventional as ever for MGM/UA products. Anyway, if the pay is right, why not. And Yul in a wig is ridiculous at best.

DVD release and the wait was worth it. Great entertainment in the DeMille tradition. SOLOMON AND SHEBA finally gets a U.S. The movie hasn't looked or sounded this good since the day it was released back in 1959. Gina Lollobrigida at her most beautiful and Yul Brynner with hair.plus a cast of thousands. Who could ask for more.

Expanding the Bible. Several incidents are woven together and a little extra is thrown in by Hollywood. Nonetheless, I love this movie. The film got off to a bad start.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Queen of Sheba being a temptress; it simply says she is an admirer of Solomon. There is no hint of romance. "Solomon and Sheba". I say, look at it but keep your mind and your Old Testament open. Amos Lassen.

The Biblical inaccuracies are throughout the film, however. First it is visually beautiful and Gina Lollabrigida is alluring as the queen of Sheba. She was not involved in the dispute of the succession of Adonijah, Solomon's brother and that is the heart of the film. Also this is the last film of King Vidor, one of the masters of the Hollywood epic. Sheba did not see the famous case of the two women who came before Solomon and neither did she know anything about the Temple. The movie is a Biblical stew.

The film does live up to the King Vidor trademark.

"Solomon and Sheba" which was made in 1959 has several good things going for it even if it gets its Biblical facts wrong.

It is beautiful to watch and it certainly made me return to the Bible to check the facts.

With 75% of the film finished, Tyrone Power who was playing Solomon died and was replaced by Yul Brynner who convincingly portrays the wise king.

I love movies based on the Bibleeven if they are inaccurate.

They make me think and that is a good thing.

The queen simply went on a trade mission to Israel, talked with the king and returned to her country with goods she received.

In the Bible there is very little said about the two monarchs.

The story of Adonijah in the Bible is nowhere as elaborate as shown here in the film.

All the bibical movies from the 50's are fun. This one is worth viewing just to see Yul Brynner with hair. Also, George Sanders is always a great presence on the big screen. Pop the popcorn and enjoy.

Solomon and Sheba is a film more famous for original star Tyrone Power's death two-thirds of the way through shooting than for anything it achieved once the cameras started rolling again with Yul Brynner in the role (having shot most of the big exteriors, there simply wasn't enough footage of Power in the key scenes with Gina Lollabrigida's Sheba to cut together into a feature). From the few extracts that have emerged of Tyrone Power's footage this could have been a contender, but after his fatal heart attack filming the final swordfight with long-time co-star George Sanders, unpopular replacement Yul Brynner had the script rewritten to replace Power's doubting warrior king with a more confident and less interesting typical movie hero. There's a huge element of half-heartedness to much of the film that doesn't help matters, much of it no doubt due to reshooting so much of the film again, but it's doubtful this would ever have been more than big-budget hokum. The result is one of those films like Blood Alley (which saw Robert Mitchum controversially replaced by John Wayne days into filming), where the story of what happened behind the screen is much more interesting than the one on it.