The King of Kings (1927)
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
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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It was produced by a man named Samuel Bronston, who for a short span of time in the '60s was hellbent on making himself a star in the world of florid history epics: the cynical among us might notice that Cecil B. DeMille had just died, leaving a vacuum in the world of gigantic spectacles, one that a a cunning producer might be able to jump into, especially if he had the balls to title his first movie in that vein almost, but not quite, the exact same as DeMille's much-loved 1927 The King of Kings , to which it is otherwise not related.
Audience members who have been around for a while can’t help but compare the Christian films made by Cecil B. DeMille – The Ten Commandants949), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Sign of the Cross (1932), The King of Kings (1927); Henry King’s David and Bathsheba (1951) and Henry Koster’s The Robe (1953); all far more authentic Bible stories.
The crucifixion is much more real, unlike anything we've seen before, from 1927's silent film "The King of Kings" to George Stevens' classic, "The Greatest Story Ever Told."