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1927 · Movie · 2h 37m

King Of Kings

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.

My take

A silent-era epic that transforms spiritual narrative into pure cinematic spectacle. Sweeping, reverent, and visually overwhelming—this is devotional filmmaking on an unprecedented scale. For viewers seeking transcendent, old-Hollywood grandeur.

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Cast

Dorothy CummingErnest TorrenceH.B. Warner

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

If tonight is a King Of Kings night…

…these live in the same corner of my head.

Want one picked out for tonight?

Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.