The Greatest Story Ever Told Filming Locations

The Greatest Story Ever Told Filming Locations: The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film that was produced and directed by George Stevens. It is a reiteration of the Biblical account of Jesus of Nazareth, from the Nativity by way to the Ascension.

The Greatest Story Ever Told received 5 Academy Award nominations and the movie was not successful and its incapacity to connect with audiences disheartened the production of biblical epics for years.

Where Was The Greatest Story Ever Told Filmed?

Film Name	The Greatest Story Ever Told
Filming Locations	Pyramid Island as Sea of Galilee Canyonlands National Park Arches National Park, Utah, USA, Moab, Utah, USA, Kanab, Utah, USA, Crazy Canyon, Page, Arizona, USA
Filming Dates	28 October 1962 to 1 August 1963
Release Date	15 February 1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told Filming Locations

The film is shooted in The Greatest Story Ever Told in the U.S. southwest, in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.

Pyramid Lake in Nevada speaks for the Sea of Galilee, Lake Moab in Utah was used to shoot the Sermon on the Mount, and California’s Death Valley is the location of Jesus’s 40-day journey into the wilderness.

Some parts of the movie were also shot at Lake Powell, Canyonlands, and Dead Horse Point in Utah. Stevens describes his decision to use the U.S. rather than the Middle East or Europe in 1962. 47 sets were constructed, on location and in Hollywood studios, to put up Stevens’s vision.

The Jerusalem city set was built near the northwest corner of RKO Forty Acres by early 1963 and was knocked down soon after the shooting was completed.

Primary photography was arranged and organized to run for 3 months but ran for 9 months or more due to various delays and setbacks. Copious of the production was filmed when Arizona had heavy snow during the winter of 1962–1963.

The Greatest Story Ever Told, 18 months after shooting wrapped at the Warner Cinerama Theatre in New York City and premiered on February 15, 1965. It opened 2 days later at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles and then in Miami Beach.

The movie opened in Philadelphia and Detroit on March 9, 1965, and an improved version opened March 10, 1965, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. It also opened on March 10 in Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh and in Boston on March 11. A brief version of the movie was released in February 1967 for its general release in Chicago. (External Link: IMDb)