The Robe

All the passion, excitement and pageantry of Lloyd C. Douglas' best-selling novel unfolds in this story of the Crucifixtion of Jesus and the birth of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The story is seen through the eyes of Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton), a young patrician Tribune posted to Jerusalem with his Christian slave, Demetrius (Victor Mature). Marcellus supervises the execution of a Man calling himself the 'Son of God.' He wins the Robe worn by Jesus in a dice game, and is haunted by guilty memories. Ordered to destroy the Robe, Marcellus becomes a convert to Christianity. He falls into the hands of the cruel Pagan Emperor Caligula (Jay Robinson), is found gulity of treason and is condemned to death. Princess Diana (Jean Simmons), the women he loves, gives the Robe to a Christian slave as she shares her fate with Marcellus.