Out of all the biblical stories Cecil B. Demille attempted on screen,this picture is probably the most decent one after his 1956 remake of The Ten Commandments. The way he tells the gospel is fairly decent for the generation of those times compared to MGM's remake in 1961. It seemed more secular the way Nicholas Ray filmed than Cecil B. Demille. Plus the major contrast is that H.B. Warner's Christ is much older than Jeffrey Hunter's Christ. Demille was possibly seeking a man with a fatherly image or face just like George Stevens did when he selected Max Von Sydow to portray Christ. The scriptural quotes as the film goes along is an original idea. Demille should have done that in his other biblical films also.
Review of The King of Kings
