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The King of Kings

Supreme in Theme! Gigantic in Execution!

1927 · NR · 2h 35m

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

6.4

TMDB audience score
68 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • H.B. Warner
    Jesus, The Christ

  • Dorothy Cumming
    Mary, the Mother

  • Ernest Torrence
    Peter

  • Joseph Schildkraut
    Judas Iscariot

  • James Neill
    James - Brother of John

  • Joseph Striker
    John - the Beloved

  • Robert Edeson
    Matthew - the Publican

  • Sidney D'Albrook
    Thomas, the Doubter

  • Jacqueline Logan
    Mary Magdalene

  • Charles Belcher
    Philip

  • Victor Varconi
    Pontius Pilate - Governor of Judea

  • Montagu Love
    Roman Centurion

  • William Boyd
    Simon Of Cyrene

  • Julia Faye
    Martha

  • May Robson
    Mother of Gestas

  • Sidney Franklin
    (uncredited)

  • John George
    (uncredited)

  • Rex Ingram
    (uncredited)