The King of Kings
United States • 1927
Director
#266Criterion Collection →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.
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.
Credits
Crew
DirectorCecil B. DeMille
WriterJeanie Macpherson
CinematographerJ. Peverell Marley
EditorHarold McLernon, Anne Bauchens
ProducerCecil B. DeMille
Cast
H.B. Warneras Jesus, The Christ
Dorothy Cummingas Mary, the Mother
Ernest Torrenceas Peter
Joseph Schildkrautas Judas Iscariot