4/5 I liked this movie
  by true crime reader
I liked this movie so much that I bought it twice. but the best part is Jack Palance. He play's a crazy sorderer who at the end of the movie thinks he can fly so he jumps off of a high tower. SPLAT !

3/5 The Holy Grail
  by Victoria A. Pickrell (Chatham Co., NC)
Interesting tale of the life of a young silversmith who fashions
a container for the Holy Grail.

1/5 NOT EVEN CHAPTERS OR A MENU ON THIS DVD TURKEY!
  by Edward Oleksak (New Jersey USA)
This waste of film stock introduced Paul Newman to the world in 1954. Virginia Mayo, with "wicked" eyebrows (drag-queen mean), and Jack Palance, sporting a black sperm on red union-suit, who runs short of pixie-dust and flutters to a splat (watch out David Blaine!). It is the most misguided, ABSURD art direction & set design of any of the 50's "spectaculars" - a kind of "Neronian Moe-dern". Now folks, to impress upon you just how rich Nero's banquets were, they let loose with the gold spray paint and painted the lavish eats all GOLD! LAVISH! The script could have been bettered by a 12 year old. Reportedly Newman tried to buy the negative from the brothers Warner so he could burn it (the bros refused).
"So bad, it's good!" does not aply , this film REALLY IS AWFUL - No laughs here (well Mayo's eyebrows do get a smile at least). [...]. The print is very good and the sound even better, which leads me to its ONE redeeming quality, and it is a great contribution to film history (along with introducing the great humanitarian and fine actor, Mr. Paul Newman): Franz Waxman's magnificent score (Limited edition 2 CD set of only 3000 by Film Score Monthly - FSM Vol.10 No.11) is a lasting tribute to that great composer. Russ Tamblyn (under-rated and unjustly, almost forgotten) fans, he's NOT in this film - Amazon should eliminate that insulting "Tag". No menu or numbered chapters.

4/5 Forty Years On
  by S. Bochat (Australia)
I found I returned to my young days and remembered the impact the movie made then. While staging and acting seems a little stilted I enjoyed the movie all over again.

1/5 dreadful, even by religious epic standards
  by Michael Giltz
The death of Paul Newman means the usual flood of releases and tributes, but naturally an actor who worked steadily for decades can't have made ALL good movies. The Silver Chalice ($19.98; Warner Bros.) was a plodding Biblical epic and the first showcase for Newman, who loved to make fun of the film. Indeed, it's a strange, miserable little movie, with the sets either bizarrely stylized (the outdoor scenes look like leftovers from Fritz Lang's Metropolis or maybe the dream sequences from Hitchcock's Spellbound) or in the case of the interior scenes cavernous and echoing to a ludicrous degree. Visit me at michaelgiltz dot com.