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It runs long at 2h 35m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
68 audience votes
Key crew
- Cecil B. DeMilleDirector
- Jeanie MacphersonWriter
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
- Victor VarconiPontius Pilate - Governor of Judea
- Montagu LoveRoman Centurion
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Themes
crucifixionresurrectionsilent filmmessiahbig budgetjesus christjudeainspirationalcommanding