Kinoy's script cuts out various aspects of the original stories without such obvious parallels, the incidents with Dinah and Tamar, for example as well as the story where Jacob wrestles with God and the time Joseph wastes rotting in jail whilst the fickle baker forgets his plight. Due to their mothers they are given preferential treatment leading to a rift with their brothers on the one hand, but material gain and prosperity on the other, and eventually forgiveness and reconciliation win out.
In particular, the numerous similarities in the story between father and son - both men are dreamers ,but also seek to deceive. The film's strongest point is the way it manages to draw out the parallels in the script that might otherwise be lost on modern audiences. Moreover, despite the text's tendency to let the story get bogged down in detail, Ernest Kinoy's script manages to keeps things ticking along. With the barren desert landscape, some nice compositions and reasonably high production values it's a competently made film bearing a few of the hallmarks of classic 70s cinema and few, if any, significant weakpoints. As the title might suggest, it's very much a film of two haves distinguished only from films such as Samson and Gideon, by the handful of scenes that the two lead actors (Keith Michell as Jacob and Tony Lo Bianco as Joseph) share together.Īll in all it's actually a fairly decent effort. In between, Marcello Baldi and Mario Landi attempted the task in the early sixties, whilst The Greatest Heroes of the Bible incorporated the story into their sweep of the Hebrew Bible in 1979.Īrguably the most significant take on the story, therefore, is this made for TV special The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974). There have however been a number of relatively minor films about him from the Greed entry in Louis Feuillade's Seven Deadly Sins series, to Lux Vide's 1994 Bible Collection version starring Sean Bean as Esau. Yet there has never been a major film made about. More generally I've given a number of talks / led through groups on Jesus in Film and was a consultant for the Channel 4 documentary The Passion : Films, Faith and Fury.Īccording to the Bible, Jacob was the man who founded the nation that later adopted his pseudonym - Israel - for itself. I have also written for various other publications including rejesus. I've also contributing to various edited works including " T&T Clark Handbook to Jesus and Film" (2021), " The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium", " The T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film" (2018) and "The Bible in Motion" (2016). I've studying the Bible on Film for twenty years, with my first book "100 Bible Films" (BFI) due out in May 2022. Index of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Films.30 Film Jesus Film Scene Guide Spreadsheet.Me on TV ( The Passion: Films Faith and Fury).Me on TV ( The Passion: Films and Religion).Me in Print ( The Bible in Motion (2016)).Me in Print ( Companion to the Bible and Film (2018)).Me in Print ( Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium (2020)).Me in Print ( Handbook to Jesus and Film (2021)).My 1st solo book ( 100 Bible Films (BFI) (2022)).
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