Word: baeck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Fire. To make sure the film was as accurate as possible, Producer Lord Grade consulted experts from the Vatican to the Leo Baeck Rabbinical College of London and the Koranic School at Meknes, Morocco. But the film nonetheless came under ideological fire from Protestant right-wingers, led by Bob Jones III, president of South Carolina's Bob Jones University. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen that he would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man-gentle, fragile, simple," and Jones leaped to the conclusion that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing...