The King of Kings (1927 film)
- H. B. Warner: Jesus Christ
- Dorothy Cumming: Maria
- Ernest Torrence: Simon Peter
- Joseph Schildkraut: Judas Iscariot
- James Neill: James the Greater
- Joseph Striker: John
- Robert Edeson: Matthew
- Sidney D' Albrook: Thomas
- David Imboden: Andreas
- Charles Belcher: Philip
- Clayton Backard: Bartholomew
- Robert Ellsworth: Simon the Zealot
- Charles Requa: James the Less
- John T. Prince: Jude Thaddeus
- Jacqueline Logan: Mary Magdalene
- Rudolph Schildkraut: Caiaphas
- Victor Varconi: Pontius Pilate
- Majel Coleman: Claudia Procula
King of Kings is an epic film by Cecil B. DeMille from the year 1927. He is one of the feature-length movies of the life of Jesus from the time of silent films.
Action
Be told the last three years of life and public ministry of Jesus, as well as his crucifixion and resurrection.
Genesis
The film was shot, the " only " U.S. $ 2,500,000 ( $ 34,858,881 today ) cost, on the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California. DeMille designed the resurrection scene in an Animation. Two sequences of the film, the beginning of the movie and a scene just before the end will be filmed in two-color Technicolor.
The film was produced under strict moral guidelines. Thus, the two main actors Warner and Dorothy Cumming were contractually obliged not to jeopardize their image as God's son and mother over a period of five years. This included the abstinence from Ball visits and night clubs, the strict prohibition of card games, the prohibition of the visit of swimming pools and driving with convertibles. This contract is an anonymous woman took advantage as this director DeMille put under pressure, and wanted to bring HB Warner's private life to the press. Although no details are known about the wife of DeMille was forced to leave the United States.
The author Ayn Rand was working as an extra during the filming; during film production, she met her husband Frank O'Connor know.