Like the Thomas B. Costain book, the picture is overdrawn and sometimes tedious, but producer-director Victor Saville still manages to instill interest in what's going on, and even hits a feeling of excitement occasionally.

Though it is lavish and sweeping in execution, The Silver Chalice, for all of its august and religious aspects, is not an imposing offering.

The pic is so bad, you can hear the dogs barking.

...the movie attempts to make a grand splash. Unhappily, the splash is more like a belly flop.