The Bible in film religious epics produced as vehicles for its biggest stars. "Samson and Delilah" was the biggest moneymaking movie of 1949 and is considered the picture that sparked the biblical-epic film craze of the 1950s. It was followed by two of 1951’s biggest box-office hits, "Quo Vadis" and "David and Bathsheba". Charlton Heston starred in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". According to author Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, in the 1950s and 1960s, during the era of the production code, "the most acceptable cinematic path for movies to incorporate sex and violence was the biblical epic". Basing a film on the Bible
Cecil De Pauley St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1950 to 1958 before becoming the Bishop of Cashel and Emly, Waterford and Lismore. He was still the diocese's bishop when he died on 30 March 1968. Cecil De Pauley William Cecil de Pauley (1893-30 March 1968) was a Church of Ireland bishop and author in the 20th century. De Pauley was born in Portrush and educated at the Coleraine Academical Institution and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a curate at Enniscorthy and Booterstown before becomingProfessor of Systematic Theology at St. John's College, University of Manitoba in Canada. His next positions were incumbencies at St