The King of Kings
(1927) American
C/B&W : 14 reels
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: H.B. Warner [Jesus Christ], Dorothy Cumming [Mary], Ernest Torrence [Peter], Joseph Schildkraut (Josef Schildkraut) [Judas], Rudolph Schildkraut [Caiaphas], Jacqueline Logan [Mary Magdalene], Victor Varconi [Pontius Pilate], James Neill, Joseph Striker, Robert Edeson, Sidney D’Albrook, David Imboden, Charles Belcher, Clayton Packard, Robert Ellsworth, Charles Requa, John T. Prince, Sam de Grasse, Casson Ferguson, Majel Coleman, Montagu Love, William Boyd, Mickey Moore, Theodore Kosloff, George Siegmann, Julia Faye, Josephine Norman, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Brooks, Viola Louie, Muriel McCormac, Clarence Burton, James Mason, May Robson, Dot Farley, Hector V. Sarno, Leon Holmes, Jack Padgen, Robert St. Angelo, Redman Finley, James Dime, Richard Alexander, Budd Fine, William De Boar, Robert McKee, Tom London, Edward Schaeffer, Peter Norris, Dick Richards, James Farley, Otto Lederer, Bryant Washburn, Lionel Belmore, Monte Collins, Luca Flamma, Sojin Kamiyama, André Cherron, William Costello, Sally Rand, Noble Johnson, Joe Bonomo, Winifred Greenwood, Charles Ray, Charles Clary, Earl Metcalf, Brandon Hurst, Jane Keckley, Ray Erlenborn [extra]

DeMille Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Researcher Elizabeth McGaffey. Art direction by Mitchell Leisen and Anton Grot. Costume design by Earl Luick and Gwen Wakeling. Makeup by Fred C. Ryle. Technical engineers Paul Sprunck and Norman Osunn. Assistant directors Frank Urson, William J. Cowen and Roy Burns. Cinematography by J. Peverell Marley, assisted by Fred Westerberg and Jacob A. Badaracco. Special effects by Cecil D. Love. Edited by Anne Bauchens and Harold McLernon. Associate editor Clifford Howard. Music by Hugo Reisenfeld (Hugo Riesenfeld). General music director Josiah Zuro. / © 1927 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. Released 19 April 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. / The film’s production costs were approximately $2.5 million. The film was copyrighted at 18 reels. The film was rereleased in the USA by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, with synchronized music and sound effects, utilizing the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system, in 1928. / Silent film.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 17 October 2007.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 285; Basten-Technicolor pp. 128c, 169; Birchard-DeMille pp. ix-x, xiii; Bohn-Light pp. 81, 90; Brownlow-Parade p. 185; Cary-Hollywood p. 222; Coe-History p. 6; Drew-Speaking p. 82; Everson-American p. 310p; Fell-History p. 106; Geduld-Birth p. 146; Lahue-Collecting p. 25; Lee-Not p. 93; Leish-Cinema p. 47; Limbacher-Feature p. 131; Maeder-Hollywood p. 87; Perry-British p. 56; Sinyard-Silent pp. 95, 148, 149; Sklar-Movie p. 312; Smith-Epic pp. xvii, 129, 131; Slide-Aspects p. 95; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 167-169 : ClasIm-204 p. 33; ClasIm-220 p. 48; ClasIm-223 pp. 30, 32, 48; ClasIm-224 p. 55; ClasIm-225 p. 43; ClasIm-240 p. 58; ClasIm-311 p. 72.

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