The King of Kings (1927 DeMille), film
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The King of Kings (1927) is a feature film (silent, B&W, 155m), 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 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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Categories:
- 1927
- Fiction--1920s
- Fiction--English
- Cinema--1920s
- Cinema--American
- Feature Films
- English language--1920s
- Historical Jesus Studies--1920s
- Historical Jesus Studies--English
- Historical Jesus Studies--Fiction
- Life of Jesus (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--cinema (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--cinema (subject)
- Mary of Nazareth--cinema (subject)
- Twelve Apostles--cinema (subject)
- Peter--cinema (subject)
- Judas Iscariot--cinema (subject)
- John--cinema (subject)
- James Zebedee--cinema (subject)
- Matthew--cinema (subject)
- Thomas--cinema (subject)
- Andrew--cinema (subject)
- Philip the Apostle--cinema (subject)
- Bartholomew--cinema (subject)
- Simon the Zealot--cinema (subject)
- James Alphaeus--cinema (subject)
- Thaddeus--cinema (subject)
- Caiaphas--cinema (subject)
- Pilate--cinema (subject)
- Pilate's wife--cinema (subject)
- Simon of Cyrene--cinema (subject)
- Mark--cinema (subject)
- Malchus--cinema (subject)
- Barabbas--cinema (subject)
- Martha of Bethany--cinema (subject)
- Mary of Bethany--cinema (subject)
- Lazarus--cinema (subject)
- Devil--cinema (subject)
- Adulteress--cinema (subject)
- Thieves of Golgotha--cinema (subject)
- Dismas--cinema (subject)
- Gestas--cinema (subject)
- Top 1920s