United States
1927
155 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
266
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. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this beloved film in a two-disc edition featuring both the 112-minute general-release version and the rarely seen 155-minute cut that premiered at the grand opening of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
| Jesus | H.B. Warner |
| Mary | Dorothy Cumming |
| Mary Magdalene | Jacqueline Logan |
| Caiaphas | Rudolph Schildkraut |
| The Pharisee | Sam De Grasse |
| The Scribe | Casson Ferguson |
| Pontius Pilate | Victor Varconi |
| Proculla | Majel Coleman |
| Roman Centurion | Montagu Love |
| Simon of Cyrene | William Boyd |
| Mark | Micky Moore |
| Malchus | Theodore Kosloff |
| Barabbas | George Siegmann |
| Martha | Julia Faye |
| Mary of Bethany | Josephine Norman |
| Lazarus | Kenneth Thomson |
| Director | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Story and continuity | Jeanie Macpherson |
| Chief photography | J. Peverell Marley |
| Assisted by | J.A. Badaracco and Fred Westerberg |
| Assistant director | Frank Urson |
| Second assistants | Roy Burns and William J. Cowen |
| Art director | Mitchell Leisen |
| Set dresser | Theodore Dickson |
| Costumes | Adrian, Earl Luick and Gwen Wakeling |
| Associate film editor | Clifford Howard |
| Editing | Anne Bauchens and Harold McLernon |
| Research | Elizabeth McGaffrey |
| Color photography | Technicolor |
SPECIAL-EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
In the classical Hollywood era, it was axiomatic that the public didn’t give a damn about directors. For all the notice taken of the profession by gossip columnists, fan magazine writers, and studio flacks, movies could have grown on trees or sprung Athena-like from the heads of the only talent...
Hollywood Boulevard was mobbed on the evening of May 18, 1927, as Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings premiered, the christening feature of Sid Grauman’s sumptuous new Chinese Theater. 100,000 people, the largest crowd ever to greet any kind of theatrical opening, were there either gawking at...
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