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The King of Kings

1927·155 min·US
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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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.

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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Cast

H.B. Warner

H.B. Warner

Jesus, The Christ

Dorothy Cumming

Dorothy Cumming

Mary, the Mother

Ernest Torrence

Ernest Torrence

Peter

Joseph Schildkraut

Joseph Schildkraut

Judas Iscariot

James Neill

James Neill

James - Brother of John

Joseph Striker

Joseph Striker

John - the Beloved

Robert Edeson

Robert Edeson

Matthew - the Publican

Sidney D'Albrook

Sidney D'Albrook

Thomas, the Doubter

Jacqueline Logan

Jacqueline Logan

Mary Magdalene

Charles Belcher

Charles Belcher

Philip

Victor Varconi

Victor Varconi

Pontius Pilate - Governor of Judea

Montagu Love

Montagu Love

Roman Centurion

William Boyd

William Boyd

Simon Of Cyrene

Julia Faye

Julia Faye

Martha

May Robson

May Robson

Mother of Gestas

Crew

Jeanie Macpherson

writer

J. Peverell Marley

cinematographer

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