The Silver Chalice
“I bid you seek the lost Silver Cup - for Sin is rising like the swollen rivers...”
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
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Cast
51 people
Virginia Mayo
Helena
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Pier Angeli
Deborra
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Jack Palance
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Paul Newman
Basil
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Walter Hampden
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Joseph Wiseman
Mijamin
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Alexander Scourby
Luke
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Jesus
Lorne Greene
Peter
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David J. Stewart
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Herbert Rudley
Linus
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Jacques Aubuchon
Nero
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E.G. Marshall
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Victor Saville Director · Lesser Samuels Screenplay Thomas B. Costain Author
Worldwide gross $3.2M · Budget $4.5M · United States release December 20, 1954
Box office
Budget
$4,500,000
Worldwide gross
$3,200,000
Gross vs. budget
0.7×
Production
Victor Saville Productions
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
United States · December 17, 1954
Premiere · Saranac Lake, New York
United States · December 20, 1954
Theatrical
Austria
September 1, 1955 · Theatrical
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