The King of Kings (1927)
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Overview
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.
Cast
- H.B. Warner as Jesus, The Christ
- Dorothy Cumming as Mary, the Mother
- Ernest Torrence as Peter
- Joseph Schildkraut as Judas Iscariot
- James Neill as James - Brother of John
- Joseph Striker as John - the Beloved
- Robert Edeson as Matthew - the Publican
- Sidney D'Albrook as Thomas, the Doubter
- Jacqueline Logan as Mary Magdalene
- Charles Belcher as Philip