King of Kings VHS Video 2 Tape Movie Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna

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This listing is for King of Kings VHS Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna.

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca Lindfors

Directors: Nicholas Ray

Writers: Philip Yordan, Ray Bradbury

Producers: Alan Brown, Jaime Prades, Samuel Bronston

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC

Rated: PG-13 - Parents Strongly Cautioned

Number of tapes: 2

Studio: MGM/UA Home Video

VHS Release Date: 1989

Run Time: 170 minutes 

A splendid, deeply moving screen biography of Christ. Especially memorable is the portion of the film depicting the "Sermon on the Mount." 2-Tape Set. Not Rated. 170 min. I saw King of Kings in its initial release in theaters while growing up but at the time felt it was a weak followup to Ben Hur, MGM's Road Show extravaganza featuring reserved seating. Jeffrey Hunter seemed mis-cast as Jesus and Robert Ryan, popular in film noir of the times, was a real stretch as John The Baptist. Still the years have been kind to this huge production made in Spain by Samuel Bronston (famous for El Cid, 55 Days at Peking and The Fall of the Roman Empire among others). The film was shot in 70mm Super Techirama and Technicolor and looks as good today on a blu-ray disc as it did when first released over fifty years ago. In this time when Hollywood went for glamour and excess with a touch of religion framed around fight scenes with a cast of thousands and scantily-clad dancers and hinted sexual overtones, today's films seem to prefer a more realistic tone and look using subdued color, especially when there is use of CGI (computer-generated images). This 1960's version of King of Kings seems now a very fine film and one that deserves to be in any collection as a representative of the big budget, widescreen films with a cast of thousands of the times.

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