4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1144

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1144 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0780329016
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 3/2/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

The Story of Ruth 11/60-1/61 File Copy

Photo Cover: Ruth (photo of Viveca Lindfors); Boaz (photo of Stuart Whitman)
Script: Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils & Inks: Tom Gill

This is tied with one other as the best of six copies graded to date. 04/19/13. I originally bought this, graded s is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 0. The Story of Ruth
2. 1. The Story of Ruth
3. 2. The Story of Ruth
4. 3. Prophets of Israel
5. 4. [Viveca Lindfors photo]
The Story of Ruth This is also the back cover of this copy.
I do not believe an AD back variant exists for this issue.
Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
http://www.comics.org/issue/15963/

This was based on the 1960 movie of the same name. Wikipedia sheds a little more light on the source material for this comic:

The Story of Ruth is a 1960 American[4] biblical-epic film directed by Henry Koster based on the biblical Book of Ruth and filmed in CinemaScope. The title role is portrayed by Israeli-Jewish actress Elana Eden in her film debut, co-starring Stuart Whitman as Boaz, Tom Tryon as Mahlon, Peggy Wood as Naomi, Viveca Lindfors as Eleilat, and Jeff Morrow as Tob

Plot
The first part of the film revolves around Ruth, a pagan idolatress who serves as the spiritual teacher of a young Moabitess girl Tebah who is being prepared to be sacrificed to Chemosh, a Moabite deity. High-priestess Eleilat, along with Ruth, orders Mahlon, a Judean artisan, to brush the Tebah's ritual crown. As Mahlon delivers the crown to Ruth at the temple, he denounces her god Chemosh explaining its nonexistence. This fictional non-Biblical part ends with the site of the Moabite girl being sacrificed, and a frightened, astonished Ruth fleeing to Mahlon and Naomi's family. The result of this "dishonor" follows Mahlon prisoned along with Elimelech his father and Chilion his brother. Chilion and Elimelech die in the prison, while Mahlon's punishment is to perform slave work for the rest of his life. After an attempt by Ruth to help him flee from the slave site, causes his death. The Biblical storyline begins now as Naomi, Orpah, and Ruth have widowed. The second part is more based toward the Biblical account found in the Book of Ruth, a subplot is added, that of the Bethlehemites disapproval of Ruth's pagan past and Naomi's kinsman rejecting the refusal of Ruth's hand in marriage pleaded by Boaz.
[edit] Cast
• Stuart Whitman ... Boaz
• Tom Tryon ... Mahlon
• Peggy Wood ... Naomi
• Viveca Lindfors ... Eleilat
• Jeff Morrow ... Tob
• Elana Eden ... Ruth
• Thayer David ... Hedak
• Les Tremayne ... Elimelech
• Eduard Franz ... Jehoam
• Leo Fuchs ... Sochin
• Lili Valenty ... Kera
• John Gabriel ... Chilion
• Ziva Rodann ... Orpah
• Basil Ruysdael ... Shammah
• John Banner ... King of Moab
• Adelina Pedroza ... Iduma
• Daphne Einhorn ... Tebah
• Sara Taft ... Eska
• Jean Inness ... Hagah
• Berry Kroeger ... Huphim
• Jon Silo ... Tacher
• Don Diamond ... Yomar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Ruth
 
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