The King of Kings (1927 DeMille), film
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The King of Kings (1927) is a silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Abstract
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 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
- Ernest Torrence = Peter
- Jacqueline Logan = Mary Magdalene
- Joseph Schildkraut = Judas Iscariot
- Victor Varconi = Pontius Pilate
- Rudolph Schildkraut = Caiaphas
- Michael D. Moore = young Mark
- Victor Varconi = Pontius Pilate
- George Siegmann = Barabbas
Editions and translations
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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- 1927
- Fiction
- Cinema
- Films
- American Fiction
- American Cinema
- Made in the 1920s
- Historical Jesus Fiction
- Historical Jesus Studies
- Historical Jesus Studies--1920s
- Historical Jesus Studies--United States
- Life of Jesus (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--fiction (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--cinema (subject)
- Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--fiction (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--cinema (subject)
- Top 1920s
- Fiction--Top 1920s
- Historical Jesus Studies--Top 1920s
- International Bestsellers
- See also:
- Mary of Nazareth (subject)
- Mary of Nazareth--fiction (subject)
- Mary of Nazareth--cinema (subject)
- Peter (subject)
- Peter--fiction (subject)
- Peter--cinema (subject)
- Judas Iscariot (subject)
- Judas Iscariot--fiction (subject)
- Judas Iscariot--cinema (subject)
- John (subject)
- John--fiction (subject)
- John--cinema (subject)
- Caiaphas (subject)
- Caiaphas--fiction (subject)
- Caiaphas--cinema (subject)
- Pilate (subject)
- Pilate--fiction (subject)
- Pilate--cinema (subject)
- Pilate's wife (subject)
- Pilate's wife--fiction (subject)
- Pilate's wife--cinema (subject)
- Simon of Cyrene (subject)
- Simon of Cyrene--fiction (subject)
- Simon of Cyrene--cinema (subject)
- Mark (subject)
- Mark--fiction (subject)
- Mark--cinema (subject)
- Malchus (subject)
- Malchus--fiction (subject)
- Malchus--cinema (subject)
- Barabbas (subject)
- Barabbas--fiction (subject)
- Barabbas--cinema (subject)
- Martha of Bethany (subject)
- Martha of Bethany--fiction (subject)
- Martha of Bethany--cinema (subject)
- Mary of Bethany (subject)
- Mary of Bethany--fiction (subject)
- Mary of Bethany--cinema (subject)
- Lazarus (subject)
- Lazarus--fiction (subject)
- Lazarus--cinema (subject)
- Adulteress (subject)
- Adulteress--fiction (subject)
- Adulteress--cinema (subject)
- Thieves of Golgotha (subject)
- Thieves of Golgotha--fiction (subject)
- Thieves of Golgotha--cinema (subject)