David and Bathsheba

War between Israelites and Ammonites, around 1000 b.c.e, already established, we meet King David (Gregory Peck), out with the troops where he ought not be, angering commander Joab (Dennis Hoey) and bonding with Uriah (Kieron Moore), in David And Bathsheba, 1951, co-starring Susan Hayward.

Israeli King David (Gregory Peck) and married lover Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), now barely hiding their affair, rush back to Jerusalem where prophet Nathan (Raymond Massey) is overseeing a big religious event, with ominous almighty wrath ensuing, in David And Bathsheba, 1951.

Brooding on the terrace of his Jerusalem palace, after a spat with a conniving wife, King David (Gregory Peck) spies a redhead (Susan Hayward) bathing in clear view, and with an aide (James Robertson Justice) establishes a pretense for summoning her, their first meeting in David And Bathsheba, 1951.

Some 20th Century-Fox grandeur here, as Israel’s King David (Gregory Peck) is finally free to marry his pregnant lover Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), though he’s been avoiding her because he feels guilty for causing her husband to be killed in battle, in David And Bathsheba, 1951.