Director Cecil B. DeMille had staged one massive biblical epic in 1923, with The Ten Commandments. But after a few years, that was old news, or at least Old Testament. In 1927, DeMille returned with The King of Kings, a silent-movie retelling of the New Testament story of the last days of Jesus Christ. H.B. Warner portrays Christ, and DeMille outdoes himself by going for visual scale and spectacle. In other words, don't expect this particular biblical silent movie to be a run-of-DeMille kind of thing. Spoiler Alert: Jesus is crucified.

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