Omar Sharif
April, 1964
In Recent Years, foreign-film fanciers who haunt the art theaters in search of cinematic verities have watched a steady procession of brooding, hauntingly dreamlike filmic masterpieces created by Sweden's cineMerlin, Ingmar Bergman. To them, the casting of Max von Sydow -- a leading light in what has been called the Bergman Repertory Company -- as Christ in George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told, on the negative grounds that it would be difficult to accept a well-known actor as the Lord, w...
