Watching The Greatest Story Ever Told. It was made with a cast of Hollywood stars - Charlotte Heston, Robert Blake, Sydney Poitier, Angela Lansbury, Telly Savalas as Pilate, John Wayne as the centurion at the Cross. With all the sins of Hollywood at the time, the weight of Christian culture still remained, and the film, with all its faults, had the gravitas appropriate to our Lord’s life and death.
But I wouldn’t trust Hollywood to make a film like it today. In the Golden Age of Hollywood, most actors at least had a Christian upbringing they couldn’t quite escape, no matter how much they strayed. The mainline churches still carried influence as well, for good or ill.
The fall of Hollywood was inevitable, though. The sixties revolution just brought to the front of the stage what had been going on for decades behind the curtain, and gave it justification.
It’s easier to tear down than it is to build, and the losses are great. Hopefully future generations of Americans in entertainment can recover what has been lost over the past sixty years.
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