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DVD Features:
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: June 30, 2009
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Snap Case
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 2.35
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Mono 1.0 - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Bonus Footage: Newsreels (2)
- Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
- Featurette: THE CAMERA'S WINDOW OF THE WORLD
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Robert Ryan & Ron Randell | |
| Performer: | Hurd Hatfield, Viveca Lindfors, Harry Guardino & Rip Torn | |
| Directed by | Nicholas Ray | |
| Edited by | Harold F. Kress & Renee Lichtig | |
| Screenwriting by | Philip Yordan | |
| Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
| Produced by | Samuel Bronston | |
| Director of Photography: | Franz Planer, Milton R. Krasner & Manuel Berenguer |
Entertainment Reviews:
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This quirky 'Scope biblical spectacular is a lot more thoughtful and interesting than most.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
Because the makers of King of Kings took a chance by casting heartthrob Jeffrey Hunter as Christ, this was quickly dubbed by industry wags I Was a Teenage Jesus. But the film is far better than that label would suggest.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: B+ --
Nicholas Ray's biblical epic, toward the end of his career, is an intelligent film that finds the right balance between exteriors and interiors, stunning vistas and compelling characters.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
... whereas detractors dismissed the films as I Was a Teenage Jesus, it's more accurate to describe it as Rebel With a Cause.
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Seanax.com
Director Nicholas Ray has brooded long and wisely upon the meaning of his meanings, has planted plenty of symbols along the path, yet avoided the banalities of religious calendar art.
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Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
Let us say the spirit is hinted but the projection of it is weak.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
works as a historical epic
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7M Pictures
Product Description:
A splendid, deeply moving screen biography of Christ. Especially memorable is the portion of the film depicting the "Sermon on the Mount."
Plot Synopsis:
Nicholas Ray's lavish and beautifully constructed widescreen epic about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
"King of Kings" is built upon a series of narrative parallels and contrasts between Jesus and Barrabas. The film portrays the thief as a rebel leader of the Jewish resistance; unlike Jesus, who preaches a message of peace, Barrabas advocates violence as a means to an end. By building his drama around this religious and philosophical conflict, Ray establishes a tension that defamiliarizes this well-known story.
Highlights include the Sermon on the Mount and the scene in which Salome asks King Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
"King of Kings" is built upon a series of narrative parallels and contrasts between Jesus and Barrabas. The film portrays the thief as a rebel leader of the Jewish resistance; unlike Jesus, who preaches a message of peace, Barrabas advocates violence as a means to an end. By building his drama around this religious and philosophical conflict, Ray establishes a tension that defamiliarizes this well-known story.
Highlights include the Sermon on the Mount and the scene in which Salome asks King Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
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Production Notes:
- Originally a 70mm production, shot in Super Technirama.
- A silent version of the life of Christ, also called "King of Kings," was directed by Cecil B. de Mille in 1927. The cast included H.B. Warner (Christ); Jacqueline Logan (Mary Magdalene); Joseph Schildkraut (Judas); Ernest Torrence (Peter); Victor Varconi (Pontius Pilate); Dorothy Cummings (Mary, mother of Jesus); and Rudolph Schildkraut (Caiaphas).
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