Everything about The King Of Kings totally explained
The King of Kings (
1927) is a
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 of the movie --the
Resurrection -- is in
Technicolor.
Plot
The film opens as Mary Magdalene entertains 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's healed. He is surrounded by a halo. Mary arrives afterwards and talks to Judas, who reveals that he's 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. Jesus is also shown resurrecting Lazarus and healing the little children. At the very end of the film Jesus is shown ascending inside a house, which then changes into the tops of modern skyscrapers. "I am with you always" appears on the screen. Nearly all of the film's intertitles are quotes (or paraphrases) from Scripture.
Cast
Production details
A giant gate built for this film was later famously used in
1933's King Kong, and was among the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" in
1939's Gone with the Wind.
The King of Kings was the first movie that premiered at the legendary Cinema
Grauman's Chinese Theater in
Los Angeles,
CA on May 18, 1927.
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.
Ayn Rand (no relation), novelist, was an extra in the film, and met her future husband
Frank O'Connor on set.
Further Information
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