King of Kings (1961) | |
| Director(s) | Nicholas Ray |
| Producer(s) | Samuel Bronston, Alan Brown (associate), Jaime Prades (associate) |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Drama, Epic, Historical |
| Top Topics | Bible, Easter, Religious, True Story (based on) |
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King of Kings (1961) was a Drama - Biographical Film directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Samuel Bronston, Jaime Prades and Alan Brown.
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Film Albums: Theme from King of Kings and Other Film Spectaculars
By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 19, 2025 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversTomorrow is Easter Sunday and what better way to get into the Easter spirit then to listen to some soul-stirring religious music. This album - Theme from King of Kings and Other Film Spectaculars - could not be classified as religious music strictly speaking, but it features lovely songs from some o... Read full article
Silents are Golden: A Closer Look At ? The King of Kings (1927)
By Lea Stans on Apr 21, 2022 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilents are Golden: A Closer Look At ? The King of Kings (1927) In the mid-1920s, after being known primarily for melodramas and light comedies with battle-of-the-sexes themes, famed director Cecil B. DeMille was starting to move in a more ?epic? direction. Being interested in religious themes, a... Read full article
King of Kings (1961)
By Beatrice on Apr 17, 2017 From Flickers in TimeKing of Kings Directed by Nicholas Ray Written by Philip Yordan 1961/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Samuel Bronston Productions First viewing/Amazon Instant Apparently my bias against long Biblical epics extends to those directed by Nicholas Ray. The story of Jesus of Nazareth is well-known and does not ... Read full article
King of Kings! The 1927 Silent Masterpiece.
By C. S. Williams on Apr 20, 2014 From Classic Film AficionadosOn Tuesday, April 19th, 1927 the ?King of Kings? premiered in New York City; an epic religious moving-picture on a Biblical scale directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Jeanie Macpherson, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. The principal photography took place at Culver Studios, in ... Read full article
King of Kings! The 1927 Silent Masterpiece.
By C. S. Williams on Apr 20, 2014 From Classic Film AficionadosOn Tuesday, April 19th, 1927 the ?King of Kings? premiered in New York City; an epic religious moving-picture on a Biblical scale directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Jeanie Macpherson, cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. The principal photography took place at Culver Studios, in ... Read full article
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Narrator: And when the tomb was found empty, some days passed, and Christ was seen at Emmaus, and in Jerusalem, and those who saw Him knew He was the Lord God. And then a final time He came among His disciples by the shore of Galilee...
Jesus: [offscreen] Do you know and love Me? Feed My sheep, for My sheep are in all the nations. Go you into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature who hungers. I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
[We see the shadow of Jesus coming nearer toward the ocean, and then he spreads His arms and his cloak also begins to spread out, as if He were ascending to Heaven. The disciples leave; Peter is the last to go]
Lucius: [to Jesus, who is trying to visit John the Baptist in prison] For some reason, I favored Your mother once before. I will give You a moment with the prisoner John. But remember this... break Caesar's law, and you shall find in me the most merciless of men.
Salome: [speaking of John the Baptist] His heart should be ripped from his body!
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Facts about
This film's narrator, Orson Welles, would later narrate a portion of another Biblical work, The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis. Before narrating this Biblical epic about the King of kings, Welles had earlier portrayed a king himself in another Biblical epic, David e Golia. Welles would even portray a director directing a Biblical epic in Ro.Go.Pa.G., when he ironically had earlier directed himself in his own scenes in "David e Golia".
The scenes between John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and Salome are supposedly based more on Oscar Wilde's play "Salome", than on the Bible, though Salome's grisly behavior as depicted by Wilde is not shown.
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