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The king of kings / Modern Sound Pictures ; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
LIBRA DVD 006 689 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Birchard, Robert S., author.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 266.
- Criterion collection ; 266
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Drama.
- Jesus Christ.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Religious films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (267 min.) : sil., black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages ; 19 cm).
- Edition:
- Special edition ; Full screen presentation.
- Other Title:
- Title on container : Cecil B. DeMille's The king of kings
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection ; Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo or mono; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with the biggest budgets in Hollywood, history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster."--Container.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. 1927 - new score by composer Donald Sosin; photos, advertisements, and telegrams from the film's premiere; original press book and illustrated program.
- Disc 2. rare behind-the-scenes footage of DeMille on the set; costume and scene sketches, production and behind the scenes stills gallery, and a portrait gallery by set W.M. Mortensen; trailers from the film's Broadway run in New York; booklet featuring a 1927 essay by DeMille, an excerpt from Robert S. Birchard's new book "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood", production notes, and a new essay by Peter Matthews.
- Participant:
- H.B. Warner, Joseph Schildkraut, Ernest Torrence.
- Credits:
- Music, Donald Sosin.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Includes two versions: 1927 silent film, 155 min., premiere version; 1928 silent film, 112 min., general release version.
- ISBN:
- 078002799X
- OCLC:
- 56795845
- Publisher Number:
- 037429187326
- KIN190 Home Vision Entertainment
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