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New book out on Demille
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Robert Birchard
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Biblical & Historic
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King of Kings , 1927 |
The original version of King of Kings, 1927 was
a silent film I saw as a child on television at Easter time. To me,
it is the first of and forerunner for all biblical spectacles.
| All my life, I've wondered how many have
been turned away from Christianity by the effeminate, sanctimonious,
machine made Christ of Sunday school books. The Christ
was actually a man with a body hard enough to withstand
40 days of fasting and long journeys on foot and nights
of sleepless prayer, a man with a mind razor sharp, whose
ranging thoughts measured the kingdoms of the world against
the lilies in the field, a man who had compassion for sinners,
and unleashed His anger and biting scorn only on the hyprocities
who made a travesty of His father's temple. There could
well have been a note of admiration in the voice of Pilate
when he said of Him: 'Behold the Man!'." Cecil B.
DeMille |
Starring: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming and Jacqueline
Logan, to name a few.
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