| The King of Kings | |
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | Jeanie MacPherson |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | H.B. Warner Dorothy Cumming Ernest Torrence Joseph Schildkraut James Neill |
| Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley F.J. Westerberg |
| Edited by | Anne Bauchens Harold McLernon |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld Josiah Zuro |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 155 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
| Budget | $1,265,284[1] |
| Box office | $2,641,687[1] |
The King of Kings is a 1927 American synchronized sound epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film process.
Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor, the film is the second in DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The Sign of the Cross (1932).
- ^ a b Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8131-2636-4.