The King of Kings: Road Show Version (1927)

Cecil B. DeMill epic about the ministry and passion of the Christ is long and reverent, but also containing that small helping of feminine flesh we have come to expect from the great populist film maker. H. B. Warner’s Jesus is ethrial and iconic and his followers a collection of archetypes. The high priest Caphias an anti-semetic stereotype by today’s standards, but slightly better developed then I’d expected. Some interesting fleshing out of a few story points left largely unexplored in the Bible itself. Atheist writer/philosopher Aynn Rand was an extra in a crowd scene, this being many years before she gained her own fame.