The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told had it's World Premiere on February 15, 1965 at the Warner Cinerama Theatre in New York City. For more information, click on 1964 below and review the months that year and 1965 to see how well it did at the boxoffice and various articles.

May 1960 ad

October 1960 ad

January 1961 ad

Here is a an example of a poster for The Greatest Story Ever Told when United Artists planned to film it in Cinemascope 55.

Ad in a program for the 1964 Democratic convention

Publicity letter

Planned movie poster

Movie posters

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Germany

Spain

France

Below is a preview ticket for United Artists employees, 9am show. Below it is the same ticket before I removed all the writing.

The writing above says "Talked too John.... after performance at 1 pm." Also "4 hours with intermission". That would make the length of the movie no longer than 4 hours including the intermission. The review has it listed as 221 minutes plus intermission. A 15 minute intermission would make the total length 236 minutes.

Newspaper ad