Behold a Pale Horse | |
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Directed by | Fred Zinnemann |
Written by | JP Miller |
Based on | Killing a Mouse on Sunday 1961 novel by Emeric Pressburger |
Produced by | Fred Zinnemann Gregory Peck |
Starring | Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn Omar Sharif |
Cinematography | Jean Badal |
Edited by | Walter Thompson |
Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Brentwood Productions Highland Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.9 million[1] |
Box office | est. $3,000,000 (US/ Canada)[2] |
Behold a Pale Horse is a 1964 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn. The film is based on the 1961 novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger, which loosely details the life of the Spanish anarchist guerrilla Francesc Sabaté Llopart.
The film's title refers to a verse from the Book of Revelation 6:8: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."