Still from The King of Kings — The King of Kings (1927) — Cecil B. DeMillePhotographed by J. Peverell Marley

Cecil B. DeMille

The King of Kings

Name: The King of Kings
Genre: Drama, History, Silent
Released: 1927
Duration: 155 min

United States / English / 1927 / 2h 35m

Drama History Silent

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Criterion Collection: Spine №266
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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.