So true. There was a time in the sixties they showed it at Christmas and Easter altho they edited a few sceenes. I feel this movie and Jesus of Nazareth have brought about more conversions than church attendance.
Equally important this movie is surprisingly rated PG 13 despite the fact that most movies before the 1980's were rated G, PG, or rated R. I suspect the reason for this is because maybe the rating for this movie was changed long after it was produced as early as the 1980's.
This film is bloody amazing. I'm a not a religious person but I love Epic Movies of this time and Miklos Rosza soundtrack is one of the greatest in all of cinema. All the cast is fantastic and the production and design is so vast in scope. Definitely one of my favorite epic movies that I would watch again. Plus with that beautiful Overture and Entracte that is seen in so many movies at the time like the equally stunning Ben-Hur and Spartacus, this movie is golden and one of cinema's greats. Definitely one of my favorite films of all time. In the Top 25.
To this day, it's the best movie ever made about Christ, played by the great and handsome actor Jeffrey Hunter... Those eyes... My very first movie experience was King Of Kings and it had a great impact on my spiritual life. I LOVE YOU LORD!
I seen this movie when it first came out back in 1961 with my sister and i cried. I wish i knew how to get it on dvd so that my grandchildren can see the beauty of how I saw it
I SAW THIS MOVIE WITH MY MUM DAD AND BOTHER AND SISTER. WHEN I WAS 12YRS OLD. WHAT A MOVIE, ALL THE STARS WERE GREAT, BUT JEFFERY HUNTER WAS GREAT AS JESUS. HE HAD THE FACE OF AN ANGEL! BEAUTIFUL MOVIE. THEY DON'T MAKE MOVIES LIKE THAT ANYMORE, MAYBE THEY SHOULD? WE COULDN'T LEAVE OUR SEATS!
I watched this movie last Holy Wednesday 2020, very inspirational and giving us hope especially at this times, that we really need God to heal and protect us. I wonder this film about The Lord didn't get any single nomination at the Academy Awards especially during the era of Biblical Films, but it has a nomination for Musical Score at the Golden Globes. GOD Protects and Bless Everyone, Stay healthy and Safe.
"I come to free John". King of Kings gets better each time I watch it. Also, each time I watch King of Kings I realize how integral Ron Randell's Lucius is to this great film.
This was the movie I was looking for to show my young son. With all due respect to any other newer of fresher movie versions....this actually works better because the movie was made 1961. More relevance and has a more vintage appeal with all the glory of old Hollywood. Who wouldn't want to tell the tale of the King of Kings narrated by anybody else besides Orson Welles?
I have been watchin this movie since I was a young girl ..One of the best Jesus Christ movies ever made....🙏🙏🙏 despite the horrible critics behind it ....
This movie brings back memories for me its such a beautiful movie that tells the true bible story of Jesus I saw this movie so many times as a child and I love it I'll NEVER grow tired of watching this movie ever!" I remember I had a HUGE crush on Ron Randall the actor who played Lucius the Roman soldier I still think he's pretty cute.....and the music is so moving and beautiful too.
--------------Religion isn't the answer for anyone. Only a personal relationship with the only man to come down from heaven of the Lord Jesus Christ brings spiritual wholeness and peace which passes all understanding, as the Holy Spirit comes to take abode in our lives as we repent of sin and invite Christ in our life as our personal Lord and Savior. The meaning of religion is man reaching up to God, but Christianity wasn't a religion but God himself reaching down to man in his heavenly emissary of Jesus Christ! -------------It was specifically Christ's message and only Christ's message that was and is today divinely corroborated of God with accompanying miracles, healing, signs and wonders that only accompanied Jesus Christ and today Christ's anointed in our generation. Only God's most important message for humanity of Christ's Gospel was divinely corroborated of God by miracles, healing, signs and wonders, that only accompanied Christ and Christ's powerfully anointed in our generation! ------------The manifest powers of the Holy Spirit where people are slain under the power of the Holy Spirit during the laying on of hands and where miracles occur, only occur with Christ's anointed in, 2018., confirming the importance of Christ's Gospel as the only path to the Kingdom of Heaven, and the peace of God that passes all understanding! One of the best introductions to heaven's greatest emissary of Jesus Christ is found in John's Gospel in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. -----------No individual appearing on the world's stage has more positively impacted humanity or elevated the intrinsic value of each individual more than the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, son of the living God.
I was converted by Saint Tomas Aquinas and his logical's argument's plus his Philosofy. You should read it, he is a doctor of the church, the "angelical doctor", that's because he is no less than a genious.
Brother you can always turn to Christ he sends you signs everywhere at anytime, it's a sign from God that your even on here that are even watching and it listening to music from a story if our lord, our king, our God, Yiu are his Child, he loves you more than anything, all Yiu need do is ask, Jesus to save you, to forgive your sins, then find the official prayer which is easy to find on RU-vid, read it out aloud with joy, that's it, I hope you do brother he got me through the worst days if my life, losing fiancee of 7 years to suicide, losing wife of 9 years to liver damage, losing my best mate whom I saw everyday. Only 26 yrs old, saw him every day losing many other friends to suicide, but Jesus was there, I got such a revelation, so powerful, so bright, so strong, leaving no doubt, I was you, I did not believe until I said I'll discredit this bike, when you go to footnotes read actual manuscripts, the bible not once contradicts itself, everything we thought was myth in bible, has been found, Solomon's temple, the exedus, Sodom & gamorha the prophecy if the bricks if Solomon's temple saying, you will find them and they will be on top of each other each brick touching each othe, not one alone, it was a myth, a fairytale, until last century when they were found, meaning not one space not one brick on its own , I tried to discredit the prophecies but the prophecies came down to exactly what would happen, he knew abt. Empires not even whispered of yet not even dreeamt of yet and the exact dates, I could not discredit one of God's words, Jesus through his intelligent well thought out design of grace gave me the gift of faith to want me to pick up that bible and go off facts, for the hearts decieve us, he saved my life with this huge gust of wind on a calm very calm night, no wind whatsoever, I should be dead but he saved me for a reason, you are here, for a reason, he will come to you he will reveal himself to you if you have the gift of grace that gives us the amazing, epic, well designed gift of faith
Weve spoken with many people within the church and outside of church...after seeing jeffreys classic performance of christ...you do then believe THERE IS A CHRIST,,,magnificent,haunting and believable....jeffreys low voice is so capturing to all viewers of this movie.....the real Jesus would have been simillar in fishing so many followers..apart from the many miracles jesus made..he had to have a simillar voice and presence like that of jeffrey hunter to captivate and reform many millions around the world. Priests and bishops around the world have confirmed that what we are saying is highly true!!!
Overwrought but intermittently interesting. George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) is a much better and far less Hollywood film. -- Michael McDonagh on George Stevens
I've seen all the ultra mega biblical ultra wide screen movies in Grand old HUGE movie palaces. C.G.I. SUCKS compared to movies like KING OF KINGS. CAST OF thousands of real people no blue screen crap. and the new Ben Hur movie. wife and I walked out half way through the movie. pathetic!
"Is Monty Python's Life of Brian a parody of this movie?" The Python cast decided early that they were not going to satirize Jesus in any way. What they did satirize was blind faith without reason or proof of divinity--IOW, following after false prophets. (They also satirized unionism somewhat, but that's by the way.
****Religion isn't the answer for anyone. Only a personal relationship with the only man to come down from heaven of the Lord Jesus Christ brings spiritual wholeness and peace which passes all understanding, as the Holy Spirit comes to take abode in our lives as we repent of sin and invite Christ in our life as our personal Lord and Savior. The meaning of religion is man reaching up to God, but Christianity wasn't a religion but God himself reaching down to man in his heavenly emissary of Jesus Christ! ****It was specifically Christ's message and only Christ's message that was and is today divinely corroborated of God with accompanying miracles, healing, signs and wonders that only accompanied Jesus Christ and today Christ's anointed in our generation. Only God's most important message for humanity of Christ's Gospel was divinely corroborated of God by miracles, healing, signs and wonders, that only accompanied Christ and Christ's powerfully anointed in our generation! ****The manifest powers of the Holy Spirit where people are slain under the power of the Holy Spirit during the laying on of hands and where miracles occur, only occur with Christ's anointed in, 2018., confirming the importance of Christ's Gospel as the only path to the Kingdom of Heaven, and the peace of God that passes all understanding! One of the best introductions to heaven's greatest emissary of Jesus Christ is found in John's Gospel in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. ****No individual appearing on the world's stage has more positively impacted humanity or elevated the intrinsic value of each individual more than the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, son of the living God.
I find it amazing how many people think King of Kings is one of the best Biblical films ever. No, it was not awful, but it certainly omitted many of the events in Jesus ministry that would have made it far more substantial. In that sense the unfairly maligned Greatest Story Ever Told was more coherent. And some of the writing in Kings is just too funny: turning Herod Antipas into a debauched yahoo and making Rita Gam look like an ad for Maybelline is hysterical. On the plus side is the unforgettable music, far more worthy than the overall film, the deliciously preening Hurd Hatfield and the elegant, noble Viveca Lindfors, despite her Annette Funicello hairdo, and Brigid Bazlen’s sultry snotnose Salome. And of course gorgeous Jeffrey Hunter, who cannot compare to Robert Powell in Zefferelli’s version, but he is eye candy.
King of Kings traces the life of Jesus from his birth in Bethlehem through his years as a carpenter to his sermon on the mount, last supper, crucifixion & resurrection. Jeffrey Hunter is Jesus. You have to be tall and good-looking to be Jesus! They are all here: Pontius Pilate, John the Baptist & Barabbas. Barabbas is freed and becomes the first man for whom Jesus dies. Like other movies from this period, there is no blood in the battle scenes. There is no humor unless you count the perverse glee of Salome when she is given the head of John the Baptist.
They are wrong about María of Magdala. She was not a prostitute. She was a woman that was heal of demonic possession.The Catholic Church is guilty of the wrong doing of this tale.
الحقيقة الموءكده والثابتة عبر التاريخ هي كراهيه الأشرار لاسم المسيح ولم تنجح أموالهم وقنابلهم وإعلامهم وعملاءهم في اخفاء نور المسيح لانه كلمه الله المتجسدة حتي تفهمون يا من تحكمون العالم بأموالكم واعلامكم وعملاءكم من كل لون وجنس ومنهم من يدعون كذبا انهم مسيحيون
King of Kings traces the life of Jesus from his birth in Bethlehem through his years as a carpenter to his sermon on the mount, last supper, crucifixion and resurrection. Jeffrey Hunter is Jesus. You have to be tall and good-looking to be Jesus! They are all here: Pontius Pilate, John the Baptist and Barabbas. Barabbas is freed and becomes the first man for whom Jesus dies. Like other movies from this period, there is no blood in battle scenes. There is no humor unless you count the perverse glee of Herodias when she is given the head of John the Baptist.
الحقيقة الموءكده والثابتة عبر التاريخ هي كراهيه الأشرار لاسم المسيح ولم تنجح أموالهم وقنابلهم وإعلامهم وعملاءهم في اخفاء نور المسيح لانه كلمه الله المتجسدة حتي تفهمون يا من تحكمون العالم بأموالكم واعلامكم وعملاءكم من كل لون وجنس ومنهم من يدعون كذبا انهم مسيحيون
