Supreme in Theme! Gigantic in Execution!
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.
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Epic, grave, resolved and earnest.
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- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- H.B. WarnerJesus, The Christ
- Dorothy CummingMary, the Mother
- Ernest TorrencePeter
- Joseph SchildkrautJudas Iscariot
- James NeillJames - Brother of John
- Joseph StrikerJohn - the Beloved
- Robert EdesonMatthew - the Publican
- Sidney D'AlbrookThomas, the Doubter
- Jacqueline LoganMary Magdalene
- Charles BelcherPhilip
Crew
- Cecil B. DeMilleDirector
- Jeanie MacphersonWriter
- J. Peverell MarleyDirector of Photography
- Anne BauchensEditor
- Harold McLernonEditor
- Cecil B. DeMilleProducer
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Gladiator 200074% alikeBoth epic, grave, resolved.
Spartacus 196073% alikeBoth epic, earnest, classical in form.
The Winds of War 198380% alikeTelevision · Both epic, earnest, grave.
The Pillars of the Earth 201071% alikeTelevision · Both earnest, grave, epic.
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