Jesus Christ Rises From The Dead in DeMille's King of Kings (1927) EASTER

[abbagailcreations]

Fantastic find! The white doves & gorgeous flowers were a perfect touch! The resurrection light through the stone "door" was a brilliant idea! The soldiers really played the scene as one might imagine, though never covered in other Jesus movies.

[altobiotero]

Masterpiece... Wonderful colour !!

[hisalone1212]

This is one of the best RISEN scenes i have seen even by today's standards...the risen scenes of modern times are so short and unremarkable.....

[stlgtrace]

Beautifully done!! And still quite powerful after so many years!!!!

[OceanKingNY]

Thanks for posting this. It's a very moving, lovely sequence, and it still stirs the emotions 83 years after it was made...

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

I'm sure that audiences back in 1927 were astounded to see this scene played out in color. Of course, this is just two-strip color. Not like the Technicolor that is used in almost every movie today. Still, I'm sure audiences were like "WOW!"

[Domodeath]

Thank you for posting this Goldensilents....

[magiccasements]

Jesus was the most fascinating person who ever lived.

[TheSwingShift]

Wonderful. What an amazing piece of history preserved.

[BereshitBara2012]

Jesus rules!!.....Jesus is the master of masters, the king of kings and he shall reign forever and ever!!

[Mr1920s]

Too Beautiful for words..

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

I saw this on TCM Sunday, the color back then was nice.

[tedhead60]

Great movie! It's hard to believe that the actor playing Jesus is the same one who played the poor old drunken pharmacist in "It's A Wonderful Life"! I read that after playing Jesus H. B. Warner got typecast into roles of the typical good guy, so he was delighted to be able to play the less-than-perfect pharmacist!

[GoldenSilents]

I know an actor likes to play various roles but I think the far greater challenge in acting is to portray a truly good man. It's far easier to play evil types.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

This is amazing Technicolor. A movie about Jejus really does disserve color, they could have shot this movie in plain black and white but Cecil B. Demille decided this story really does disserve color

[64eugenia]

I've always loved silent movies not for the genre itself, necessarily, but for the glimpse into history, of a time so long ago. (Therefore I prefer silent movies that weren't also period pieces).

[daughterrevolution]

Every time I watch this I cry. It's so beautiful, despite the decomposition.

[JimC]

I've never cared for silent movies. But this was excellent. The reactions of the soldiers was very affecting. Thanks for posting it.

[agrel25952]

The new soundtrack is excellent, where can I buy this?

[GoldenSilents]

Criterion has issued King of Kings (1927) in a two disc DVD set. You can purchase off Amazon.

[Kingkong922]

Wow. Totally awesome scene. I really wanna watch this film. Did you know it tops the Jesus films?

[hotsickle]

A very beautiful example of early color film making.