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The King of Kings (1927) is a feature film (silent, B&W, 155m), directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Mary Magdalene becomes angry when Judas, now a follower of Jesus, won't come to her feast. She goes to confront Jesus, but when she meets Him, she repents her wickedness and becomes His follower. Thereafter, the Gospel story unfolds through the Ministry, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus, all witnessed by Jesus' devoted follower (and future evangelist), the boy Mark (Micky Moore). <BoyActors>
Regarded for decades as the finest telling of the story of Jesus on film, set expectations of how the movies would handle the Gospels: sex, sin, innocent children, and extreme reverence for Jesus. Remarkable for its time is the sensitive attention to avoid any element of anti-Semitism, by stressing explicitly how the responsibility for the death of Jesus lies on the High Priest alone and not on the entire Jewish people.
Cast
- H.B. Warner = Jesus of Nazareth
- Dorothy Cumming = Mary of Nazareth
- Jacqueline Logan = Mary Magdalene
- Ernest Torrence = Peter
- Joseph Schildkraut = Judas Iscariot
- James Neill = James Zebedee (James, brother of John)
- Joseph Striker = John
- Robert Edeson = Matthew
- Sidney D'Albrook = Thomas
- David Imboden = Andrew
- Charles Belcher = Philip the Apostle
- Clayton Packard = Bartholomew
- Robert Ellsworth = Simon the Zealot
- Charles Requa = James Alphaeus (James the Lesser)
- John T. Prince = Thaddeus
- Victor Varconi = Pontius Pilate
- Victor Varconi = Pilate's wife (Proculla)
- Rudolph Schildkraut = Caiaphas
- Michael D. Moore = Young Mark
- William Boyd = Simon of Cyrene
- Theodore Kosloff = Malchus
- George Siegmann = Barabbas
- Julia Faye = Martha of Bethany
- Josephine Norman = Mary of Bethany
- Kenneth Thomson = Lazarus
- Alan Brooks = Devil (Satan)
- Viola Louie = Adulteress
- Clarence Burton = Dismas, the Repentant Thief
- Jim Mason = Gestas, the Unrepentant Thief
Editions
Produced in the United States (1927). Premiered at Gaiety Theatre in New York on 19 April 1927. Enjoyed immediate, international success, being subtitled in two dozen languages.
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