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The Bible: In The Beginning (1966) was a Drama - Epic Film directed by John Huston and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Luigi Luraschi.

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Abraham: [to Sarah] Lo, here I bring my love beside thee in the tent.
Isaac: [as Abraham is preparing to kill him as a sacrifice] There is nothing that He may not ask of thee?
Abraham: Nothing.
Cain: Am I my brother's keeper?
Abraham: The night is filled with Thy voice. Here am I. What wouldst Thou demand of me?
Abraham: The ways of the Lord are not our ways. And what He hath intended or how it shall be perfected is not in our power to know. Only in the trust of what is to come can we prosper. And in that trust shall we pitch our tents.
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French director Robert Bresson was hired in 1964 by producer Dino De Laurentiis as director. When he shot his first scene - the deluge - he requested the use of all the animals in Rome city zoo. The producers complied, but upon checking the daily rushes saw that the only thing Bresson filmed was the tracks of the animals upon a sandy beach. They were furious and Bresson was fired, John Huston took over the project, delaying production a further six months.
Richard Harris and Franco Nero play brothers-turned-enemies Cain and Abel, and only a year later would play friends-turned-enemies Arthur and Lancelot in Camelot.
In some cities (such as Atlanta, GA) this film, which was shot in Dimension 150, a "curved screen" process, was not shown on a curved screen during its first run, despite the fact that there existed Cinerama theaters in those cities. This did not happen with the second and last film released in Dimension 150, the much more successful Patton.
It was John Huston's original idea to have Charles Chaplin play Noah. However, Chaplin didn't much like the idea of appearing in a picture directed by someone else, and Huston wound up playing the role himself. Similarly, Huston wanted Igor Stravinsky to score the film. For unspecified reasons, this was never done, either.
One of the first mainstream American films to feature male and female nudity (albeit artfully filmed in a light-and-shadow style) in the Garden of Eden sequences. Reportedly, neither Michael Parks nor Ulla Bergryd used body doubles for these scenes.
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