The Story of Ruth
The Old Testament story of the pagan idolater Ruth (Elana Eden), who married Mahlon (Tom Tryon), found faith and a great mother-in-law, Naomi (Peggy Wood).
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Does she have a special purpose. She meets Mahlon when he is involved in the design and production of the crown of a child about to be immolated. Is it an omen. Ruth is then selected as a child to be sacrificed to the Moab god, but she develops a rash at the moment of selection, which strangely enough, disappears once her life is spared. The Moab priest takes Ruth in and brings her up as a candidate to priestess.
The two women return to Bethlehem and here is where the plot evolves to explain to us the great importance of Ruth in biblical terms. When she questions the priest that took her in, and cries out to stop the sacrifice of the child, the soldiers go to the house of Naomi and kill her husband and ultimately, her two sons. While they are Jews, both sons end up marrying Moabite women: Chilion marries Orpah and Mahlon marries Ruth. Ruth begins to question the teachings she has received in preparation for total purification as a priestess of the Moabs and she even learns the ten commandments, given to her in a carved stone that Mahlon has worked on as a gift of love. This film develops during the times when due to famine in Bethlehem, a family is forced to move to Moab, a nearby country where the people do not hold the same beliefs and idolatrize a man made god. Naomi decides to return to Bethlehem and Ruth, now married to Mahlon, feels she must follow and support her mother in law's decision.
Has some power beyond her understanding protected her life. He then tells Ruth that the belief of his people is that God is all mighty, that he is invisible, that he created and protects all life, that he is all merciful and would never accept the punishment of sacrifice, letting a young life come to an end so others can prosper. Without a doubt, this film is very well acted and a pleasure to watch. The Story of Ruth, with a cast including Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, and Viveca Lindfors is an excellent film if you want to learn more about biblical stories. Mahlon is taken by Ruth beauty and he begins to share his beliefs, specifically that life is too precious to be sacrificed to a god, made out of stone, that needed repair and he was chosen to do the job.
A tender moment takes place and we hear the words of Ruth who tells her mother in law that she shall follow and go wherever Naomi chooses to travel to. She then says: "your people shall be my people and your God shall be my God.". If you want to learn more about biblical stories, don't miss it. If a god is just a figure that we can actually touch, breaks and we need to repair, what kind of God is that. As a child, Ruth was exchanged for money by poor parents who were struggling to survive hard times.
The family is formed by Elimelech, his wife Naomi and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion; who upon arrival at Moab, open a small business working as artisans for the ruling class.
I purchased it to supplement our biblical history home school curriculum. There is very little factual information in this movie. Orpha's role is completely wrong and the "closer kinsman" couldn't be any further away from accurate. I'm so sorry I allowed my daugther to see this movie.
I was so disappointed in this movie. Please, if you are looking for a screen version of the beautiful book of Ruth, don't waste your money here. The beauty of Boaz as a picture of Christ is totally lost because of the unbiblical way he initially treats Ruth in this film. Every character and the timeline are misrepresented.
It does something deeply for me. Elana Eden plays such a courage woman that her role is much to be admired in this movie. I am so thankful I have this movie in my life. Again, I think it is the best movie that has ever been made. Years ago I happened to see this movie on TV and was deeply touched by it.
I think all the actors/actresses did a beautiful job. As stated above in other reviews, it does take a lot of liberties Scripturally for romance sake, but the spiritual overtones in this movie, in my opinion, completely make up for it. While I don't know much about any of these actors, Peggy Wood plays such a spiritual role that I am hard pressed to think of other movies that match that in any other movie that I have seen in what she did for this movie.
I watch it when I need a spiritual boost. Together Peggy Wood and Elana Eden portray very spiritual women that is much to be admired. Elana Eden is wonderful, as well as all the male actors, and I think I have the story/movie memorized at this point, BUT I believe Peggy Wood captures my attention in many ways. I so wish that other movies had that quality/level of spirituality.
Years later in great happiness I was able to acquire a video. God bless you all in Jesus' Name.
I have been watching all the movies with Bible in hand to make sure to point out the differences between what was actually scriptural and what was not. I finally gave up and we just watched it as an interesting movie. The only thing true to the Bible account are the names of the characters. I realize that any movie will take "artistic liberties" to make the story flow along, however, this was a total remake. He said he would be more interested in learning about the Bible if he could visualize it and I thought this would be the perfect way. I purchased this movie along with two sets of biblical movies for the benefit of my husband. I personally am sorry that I added this one to our collection.
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