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The King of Kings
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- For the Nicholas Ray film, see King of Kings.
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | H.B. Warner Dorothy Cumming Ernest Torrence Joseph Schildkraut James Neill |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld |
| Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley F.J. Westerberg |
| Editing by | Anne Bauchens Harold McLernon |
| Distributed by | The Criterion Collection |
| Release date(s) |  April 19 1927 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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The King of Kings is a 1927 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is a religious movie about the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion. H.B. Warner starred as Jesus. One of the last sequences (the Resurrection) of the movie is in Technicolor.
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The film opens in color as Mary Magdalene prances about her home to the delight of the many men around her. Upon learning that Judas is with a carpenter she rides out on her chariot drawn by zebras to get him back. Peter is introduced as the Giant apostle, and we see the gospel writer Mark as a child who is healed by Jesus. Our first sight of Jesus is through the eyesight of a little girl, whom he has healed. He is surrounded by a halo. Mary arrives afterwards and talks to Judas, who reveals that he is only staying with Jesus in hopes of being made a king after Jesus becomes the king of kings, and the seven deadly sins are cast out of her in a multiple exposure sequence. Nearly all of the film's intertitles are quotes (or paraphrases) from scripture.
H.B. Warner as Christ
Dorothy Cumming as Mary
Ernest Torrence as Peter
Joseph Schildkraut as Judas
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Magdalene
Sally Rand, before becoming notorious for dancing nude behind a "bubble" in the 1930s (the origin of the term "bubble dancer" for a striptease artist), was an extra in the film. This is not the writer, Ayn Rand, who wrote The Fountainhead.
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