About this title: Having scored big-time box office with his first Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), Cecil B. DeMille hoped to top this success with his 1927 The King of Kings. Inasmuch as he was now dealing with the life of Christ, DeMille had to be careful to serve up equal amounts of showmanship and reverence. The first creative challenge: how to "introduce" Christ in a tasteful manner? The answer: as a blind child is cured through Jesus' intervention, DeMille cuts to the child's point-of-view, slowly fading in on the kindly countenance of H.B. Warner as the Son of Man. Still, DeMille remained ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Criterion
Date: 12/07/2004
UPC:037429187326
Description: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill. New. 1927 Run time: 267. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
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