The Story of David
1976 American film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Story of David (1976) is a two-part, 3 hour, 10 minute American television film dramatizing the biblical story of King David. It stars Timothy Bottoms as the young David, Keith Michell as the older David, Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Jane Seymour as Bathsheba. Produced by Columbia Pictures Television for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV), it premiered on 9 April 1976. It was filmed in Israel and Spain.
The Story of David | |
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Directed by | David Lowell Rich, Alex Segal |
Written by | Ernest Kinoy |
Produced by | Mildred Freed Alberg |
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Cinematography | John Coquillon |
Edited by | Sidney Katz |
Music by | Laurence Rosenthal |
Production companies | Columbia Pictures Television, Mildred Freed Alberg Productions |
Distributed by | American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1976; TV, U.S.)
Columbia TriStar Home Video (1997; VHS, U.S.) Columbia TriStar Domestic Television (2001; TV, U.S.) Sony Pictures Television (2002; TV, U.S.) Affirm Films (2007) (DVD, Worldwide) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009; DVD, U.S.) |
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Running time | 191 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Story of David is akin to a sequel to The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974), also produced for ABC-TV (broadcast two years earlier) and involving many of the same cast and crew.