Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ihe nkiri nke abụọ na nke ikpeazụ Burton mere n'afọ ahụ bụ ihe nkiri akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Bible, "The Robe", nke a ma ama maka ịbụ ihe nkiri mbụ a na-eme na CinemaScope. Ọ nọchiri Tyrone Power, onye a họpụtara na mbụ n'ọrụ nke Marcellus Gallio, onye bụ onye ama ama ma na-emebi emebi nke ndị agha Rom na-achịkwa ndị agha ndị agha Rom nke so na-akpọgide Jizọs Kraịst n'obe. N'ịbụ onye nrọ ọjọọ nke mkpọgide a kpọgidere ya n'obe na-enye nsogbu, a na-eduga ya n'ịgbanwe onwe ya n'ikpeazụ. Ohu Marcellus bụ́ onye Gris bụ́ Demetrius (onye Victor Mature na-akpọ) na-eduzi ya dị ka onye nkụzi ime mmụọ, nwunye ya bụ́ Diana (onye Jean Simmons na-akpọ) na-esokwa ya. Ihe nkiri ahụ setịpụrụ ụkpụrụ maka akụkọ ndị dị na Bible dị ka "Ben-Hur" (1959). Dabere na akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Lloyd C. Douglas nke 1942 nke otu aha ahụ, "The Robe" natara nke ọma n'oge a tọhapụrụ ya, mana nyocha ndị nke oge a adịchaghị mma. Magazin "Variety" kpọrọ ihe ndị isi na-eme "dị irè" ma gbakwunye usoro ọgụ dị n'etiti Burton na Jeff Morrow. Crowther kwenyere na Burton bụ "onye na-eguzosi ike n'ihe, na-anụ ọkụ n'obi ma sie ike" dị ka Marcellus. Jonathan Rosenbaum nke "Chicago Reader" kpọrọ "The Robe" "okwu nzuzu". Ihe nkiri ahụ bụ ihe ịga nke ọma na azụmaahịa, na-enweta nde $ 17 megide mmefu ego nke nde $ 5, na Burton natara nhọpụta nke abụọ ya maka Best Actor na
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