The King of Kings
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- For the Nicholas Ray film, see 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 | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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The King of Kings is a 1927 silent film 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.
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[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.
[edit] Cast
H.B. Warner as Christ
Dorothy Cumming as Mary
Ernest Torrence as Peter
Joseph Schildkraut as Judas
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Magdalene
[edit] Trivia
Sally Rand, before becoming notorious for dancing nude behind a "bubble" in the 1930s (the origin of the term "bubble dancer" for a striptease artist), was an extra in the film. This is not the writer, Ayn Rand, who wrote The Fountainhead.
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