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Home / Patristics / Mirth in the Palance
Posted on November 11, 2006 November 11, 2006

Mirth in the Palance

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Just a little late for St. Leo’s day, Bread and Circuses brings us an unforgettable image of the over-the-top portrayal of Attila the Hun by my fellow northeastern Pennsylvanian Jack Palance. The 1954 melodrama, Sign of the Pagan, was just a little too early to co-star Charlton Heston as Pope Leo.

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