any one who have see mel gibson the passion of the christ and be bother by the gory violence would want to see this film instead . though it wasn not a success in th box office or tv rating and the fox movie channel still find a real good motive to show this anually . i like the way that they train chris sarandon and the men who portray his disciple to sing in hebrew . though sarandon do not have long hair like any other jesus would in other film and his look be pretty close to what a jewish man would appear . what surprise me or startle me be the scene where caiaphas tell jesus about pilate and do not ever forget and that you be a jew . though that may have not be a racist remark and colin blakely be try to make chris sarandon look like garbage in the eye of the prominent men of those day . keith michell portrayal of pilate be hulk and compare with his previous performance in the story of jacob and joseph and the story of david . but if you compare his portrayal of pilate with telly savala or hurd hatfield and you can say that he really paint well the impression of a roman procurator .