Directed by:
Nicholas RayScreenplay:
Philip YordanComposer:
Miklós RózsaCast:
Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Royal Dano, Robert Ryan, Guy Rolfe, Antonio Mayans (more)VOD (2)
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Nicholas Ray's lavish and beautifully constructed epic about the life of Jesus of Nazareth. "King of Kings" is built upon a series of narrative parallels and contrasts between Jesus and Barrabas. The film portrays the thief as a rebel leader of the Jewish resistance; unlike Jesus, who preaches a message of peace, Barrabas advocates violence as a means to an end. By building his drama around this religious and philosophical conflict, Ray establishes a tension that defamiliarizes this well-known story. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jeffrey Hunter
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Proud Ones (1956)
White Feather (1955)
Hurd Hatfield
USA
Best movies:
El Cid (1961)
The Manions of America (1981) (series)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Ron Randell
Australia
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Viveca Lindfors
Sweden
Best movies:
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
Playing for Time (1980) (TV movie)
Rita Gam
USA
Best movies:
King of Kings (1961)
Law and Disorder (1974)
Klute (1971)
Harry Guardino
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Court Jester (1955)
Rip Torn
USA
Best movies:
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) (TV movie)
Men in Black (1997)
Hercules (1997)
Royal Dano
USA
Best movies:
The Right Stuff (1983)
Moby Dick (1956)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Robert Ryan
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Guy Rolfe
UK
Best movies:
Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
King of Kings (1961)
Antonio Mayans
Spain
Best movies:
El Cid (1961)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977)
Rafael Luis Calvo
Spain
Best movies:
The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
King of Kings (1961)
Caravana de esclavos (1958)
Orson Welles
USA
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series) - narrator
Waterloo (1970)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Paul Naschy
Spain
Best movies:
El Cid (1961)
The Apostle (2012)
King of Kings (1961)
Grégoire Aslan
Ottoman Empire
Best movies:
The Knight of the Night (1954)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Cleopatra (1963)
George Coulouris
UK
Best movies:
Papillon (1973)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Adriano Rimoldi
Italy
Best movies:
The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
King of Kings (1961)
Utopia (1950)
John Kerr
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
Fernando Sancho
Spain
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Heifer (1985)
Taxi for Tobruk (1960)
Aldo Sambrell
Spain
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)