But Heston needs to be larger than life in these films, as grounding the spectacle around you requires putting it in a headlock and wrestling it into submission.

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A Cinemascope-sized photograph of Charlton Heston, his wife Lydia and Fiona Valentine has a place of honor in Valentine's Sioux City home.

For some viewers, the agony will be watching Charlton Heston (over)act, and the ecstasy Rex Harrison. But it IS refreshing for a period film to cover such new and (pun intended) artistic ground.