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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.Read moreLess
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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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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H.B. WarnerJesus, The Christ
Ernest TorrencePeter
Joseph SchildkrautJudas Iscariot
James NeillJames - Brother of John
Robert EdesonMatthew - the Publican
Sidney D'AlbrookThomas, the Doubter
Jacqueline LoganMary Magdalene
Charles BelcherPhilip
Victor VarconiPontius Pilate - Governor of Judea
Montagu LoveRoman CenturionExplore the crew
- Director
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Editor
- Harold McLernon
- Editor
- Anne Bauchens
- Producer
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Director of Photography
- J. Peverell Marley
- Writer
- Jeanie Macpherson