Movielogr
The Wandering Jew (1933)
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Overview
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover’s illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Arnold Lucy | Conrad Veidt | Peggy Ashcroft | Alan Napier | Dennis Hoey | John Stuart | Cicely Oates | Anne Grey | Felix Aylmer | Ivor Barnard | Francis L. Sullivan | Joan Maude | Marie Ney | Abraham Sofaer | Hay Petrie | Basil Gill | Jack Livesey | Stafford Hilliard | Hector Abbas | Bertram Wallis | Kiyoshi Takase | Conway Dixon | Robert Gilbert