The Power of the Resurrection

1958 American film

The Power of the Resurrection
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Directed by	Harold D. Schuster
Written by	Henry Denker
Produced by	Henry Denker, Sam Hersh
Starring	Richard Kiley, Jon Shepodd, Morris Ankrum
Cinematography	Walter Strenge
Edited by	Robert Fritch
Music by	Paul Dunlap^[1]
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Family Films
Distributed by	Modern Sound Pictures Inc.^[2]
Release date	1958, USA
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Power of the Resurrection is a 1958 American feature film directed by Harold D. Schuster^[3] and starring Richard Kiley, Jon Shepodd, Morris Ankrum.^[4] The film is also known as The Passion and the Power of the Christ.^[5]^[6]

Plot

A young man soon facing the death sentence for his Christian faith shares his fears with Peter. Peter faces the same fate and tells the man about his own fear that he felt after Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane, when he had to deny his knowing of Jesus for three times. However, Jesus still told Peter that he would be the rock on which the Church would be built.

Cast

Richard Kiley as Peter
Jon Shepodd as Jesus Christ
Jan Arvan as Judas
Morris Ankrum as Annas
Robert Cornthwaite as Caiaphus
Stephen Joyce as John
Booth Colman as James
Dorothy Morris as Mary, Sister of Lazarus
Charles Maxwell as Investigator
Dan Riss as Thomas
John Zaremba as Samuel
Charles Wagenheim as Merchant^[7]
Gilman Rankin as Joseph of Arimathea

References

^ Hischak, Thomas S. (16 April 2015). The Encyclopedia of Film Composers (in Arabic). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-4422-4550-1. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ Walsh, Richard (28 June 2018). T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 400. ISBN 978-0-567-66621-5. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ "The Power of the Resurrection (1958)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
^ Malone, Peter (12 October 2012). Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film. Scarecrow Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8108-8390-1. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (12 September 2016). The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-1-5015-0016-9. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ Bowker's Complete Video Directory. R. R. Bowker. 2000. p. 2248. ISBN 978-0-8352-4305-6. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^ Playbills to Photoplays: Stage Performers Who Pioneered the Talkies. Xlibris Corporation. 1 December 2010. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-4535-8775-1. Retrieved 13 April 2022.