old movie buff will know why i would call this one the man in the grey flannel robe . most bible base movie be basically schlock what might call forth smile and giggle here be how peck and try to raise consciousness on a variety of psychological and social issue with the spear carrying neanderthal all about him . a a great romance and it fall flat a unleavened bread . but there be something grip about this movie . of all the big hollywood bible picture it most strikingly convey the ambivalent attitude of the average american towards belief in the biblical god . billy sunday thesis be duking it out with h. l. mencken antithesis all through the script . who get the good of it in the heavenly chorus back synthesis depends on your point of view . other than that and d and b boast a good performance by peck ( especially in the closing repentance scene ) and by jayne meadow a his bitter first wife michol and vivid and moody atmosphere ( good idea to set most action at dawn or night ) and and the rouse rendition of the twenty third psalm at the end .