This recently restored CinemaScope classic from Jules Dassin (Rififi, Topkapi) is a moral fable loaded with political analogies. In 1921, the good people of a Turkish-occupied village in Crete prepare for the Easter Passion play, led by their priest; but when a group of starving refugees from another village arrives in town, the pious priest becomes a not-in-my-backyard chauvinist, and the struggle between good and evil is revealed to be a social, not a religious, one. Adapted from a Kazantzakis novel, He Who Must Die is in the filmic tradition of Rosi, Buñuel, and Scorsese in depicting the dichotomy between the form and spirit of Christianity.