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19/04/1927 Drama, History 2h 35m
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Supreme in Theme! Gigantic in Execution!

Overview

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

  1. Cecil B. DeMille

    Director

  2. Jeanie Macpherson

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. H.B. Warner

    Jesus, The Christ

  2. Dorothy Cumming

    Mary, the Mother

  3. Ernest Torrence

    Peter

  4. Joseph Schildkraut

    Judas Iscariot

  5. James Neill

    James - Brother of John

  6. Joseph Striker

    John - the Beloved

  7. Robert Edeson

    Matthew - the Publican

  8. Sidney D'Albrook

    Thomas, the Doubter

  9. Jacqueline Logan

    Mary Magdalene

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06
As biblical epics go, this is probably the best in my book. Cecil B. de Mille has crafted a masterpiece of silent cinema depicting the tale of the Christ from the beginnings of his journey until the resurrection. Using partly scripted and actual verses from the bible, the intertitles are expertly spaced to offer support to the dialogue when required, but largely we are left to follow the story with the grand scale imagery doing the talking for it. The detail is meticulous - costumes, sets etc, as you would expect - but the use of light and shade, particularly at the end, is magnificent. The ch...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,265,284.00

Revenue
$2,641,687.00

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