The King of Kings

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King of Kings
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Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Starring	H.B. Warner Dorothy Cumming Ernest Torrence Joseph Schildkraut James Neill
Music by	Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley F.J. Westerberg
Editing by	Anne Bauchens Harold McLernon
Distributed by	The Criterion Collection
Release date(s)	April 19 1927
Running time	115 min.
Country	USA
Language	Silent
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The King of Kings is a movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is a religious movie about the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion. H.B. Warner starred as Jesus. One of the last sequences (the Resurrection) of the movie is in Technicolor. Ayn Rand was an extra in the film.

[edit] Plot

The film opens in color as Mary Magdalene prances about her home to the delight of the many men around her. Upon learning that Judas is with a carpenter she rides out on her chariot drawn by zebras to get him back. Peter is introduced as the Giant apostle, and we see the gospel writer Mark as a child who is healed by Jesus. Our first sight of Jesus is through the eyesight of a little girl, whom he has healed. He is surrounded by a halo. Mary arrives afterwards and talks to Judas, who reveals that he is only staying with Jesus in hopes of being made a king after Jesus becomes the king of kings, and the seven deadly sins are cast out of her in a multiple exposure sequence. Nearly all of the film's intertitles are quotes (or paraphrases) from scripture.