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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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Rating: 3/5 --
works as a historical epic
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7M Pictures
Rating: 7/10 --
Although it may rely a little too heavily on spectacle, it features fine acting, direction, and photography. On Blu-ray it makes a splendid showing.
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Movie Metropolis
This is one of the most interesting screen versions of the Gospels.
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Time Out
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 --
Jeffrey Hunter is less Saviour of the Christian faith and more anti-hero with many very human doubts and concerns.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 7/10 --
Many of the scenes (especially the ones centered on Pilate and John the Baptist) are as good as anything in the history of the Biblical epic.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
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
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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- UPC: 883929076376
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