Despite his disciples’ warnings of “rusty nails and splintered bones,” Jesus is determined to fulfill the prophecy of a Messiah who rises from the dead. While The Da Vinci Code popularized the theory that Jesus was married, another conspiracy had emerged decades earlier: what if Jesus “came back to life” because he’d never really died? Based on a 1965 bestseller, the plot centers on a drug which can simulate the appearance of death. It’s not the greatest film on the life of Jesus, but the addition of jaunty country music makes it enjoyably original.īuy Gospel Road: A Story Of Jesus on Amazon. While we now ridicule the image of a light-haired, blue-eyed Jesus, it was de rigueur in 1973, and Elfstrom is so Caucasian he’s positively Nordic. Cash’s wife, fellow singer June Carter, plays Mary Magdalene (and is the only actor with lines).ĭirector Robert Elfstrom also doubled up as the lead. The relatively low budget forced some creative solutions to certain scenes: Jesus is never surrounded by crowds, but instead sound effects are used along with the music to produce the right atmosphere. He appears as narrator and his songs provide the soundtrack. Here are the top 25 movies about the man we can thank for the enormous amount of chocolate we eat at various intervals throughout the year: 25. Gospel Road: A Story Of Jesus (1973)Īn enthusiastic convert to Christianity, Johnny Cash dug into his own pockets to make this film on location in Israel. Religion can also make for contentious filmmaking: too earnest and the movie feels sanctimonious and dull, too irreverent and you risk making “a holocaust movie that has the power to destroy souls eternally,” as a nun once told Martin Scorsese about his 1988 film, The Last Temptation of Christ. At the beginning of the last decade, we saw big movie star vehicles based on Old Testament tales in Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, and when those didn’t pan out, we still got Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara trying to bring an indie sensibility to Mary Magdalene.
The Biblical epic keeps appearing as if it’s on the cusp of a resurrection.
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