COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 1236 Universal
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9.2
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0255869012
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
King of Kings 1961 File Copy Adapted from the 1961 movie "King of Kings."
The first “modern” high budget film to show the “face” of Jesus Christ.
Photo Cover: Jesus Christ (as played by Jeffrey Hunter, photo)
Script: Philip Yordan (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils & Inks: Gerald McCann
Table of Contents
1. 0. King of Kings
2. 1. King of Kings
3. 2. King of Kings
4. 3. The Resurrection of Lazarus
5. 4. John the Baptist
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Some additional info from Wikipedia appears below:
An earlier silent film about Jesus Christ entitled The King of Kings directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring H.B. Warner as Jesus was released in 1927. That film, however, begins when Christ is already an adult. Director Nicholas Ray's 1961 version tells the story from the beginning and places Jesus' life in the political context of Roman conquest. As Jesus becomes an active preacher and healer, his activities are contrasted with the political stance of Barabbas and his insurgents who battle against the Roman occupiers.
In contrast to other usual film versions of the life of Christ, which show Barabbas only as the murderer whose freedom is offered in exchange for Jesus' life, in King of Kings Barabbas plays a major role, depicted as an incendiary figure fighting Roman domination and as a good friend of Judas Iscariot. Judas believes that he can persuade Barabbas to embrace Christ as a liberator and that he can influence Christ to take up arms against Rome, but Barabbas becomes disillusioned after listening to the Sermon on the Mount. It is then that Judas decides to betray Christ to the Romans. When Lucius frees Barabbas, Lucius pointedly commands Barabbas to go look at Christ as He carries His cross.
The production was photographed in Technirama by Manuel Berenguer, Milton R. Krasner and Franz Planer, and was presented in 70mm Super Technirama at selected first-run engagements.[2] It was the first film of the life of Christ to be photographed in 70mm, which was not in use when previous films on the same subject had been made. The previous film version of Christ's life, a church-sponsored film called Day of Triumph, had been filmed in standard "spherical" widescreen in 1954 by much the same people who filmed television's The Living Christ Series.[3]
Not credited at the time, Orson Welles did the voiceover of the narration, written by Ray Bradbury.[4] Welles insisted on pronouncing the word 'apostles' with a hard 't'.
At the time of its release, the film gained negative reviews from major publications such as Time magazine[5] and New York Times's Bosley Crowther. The latter felt that the movie had "the nature of an illustrated lecture" and was a "peculiarly impersonal film that constructs a great deal of random action around Jesus and does very little to construct a living personality for Him."[6]
However, its reputation has since improved, with such critics as Leonard Maltin giving the film three-and-a-half stars out of four. Musicians such as Grammy Award-winning Art Greenhaw have cited the movie as being an influence in their work and even their favorite film of all time.[7] The film holds a "fresh" 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.[8]
King of Kings is also memorable for the music score by composer Miklós Rózsa, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.[9] Rózsa's most recent work at the time was the score for MGM's hugely successful religious epic Ben-Hur (1959), for which he won his third Oscar. Rózsa composed the scores for many of MGM's epic films, including Quo Vadis? (1951) and El Cid (which he scored the same year as King of Kings).
Legacy[edit]
Most films at the time did not show Jesus's face, preferring to do shots of his hands (as in Ben-Hur) or over-the-shoulder views. King of Kings was the first large-budget major studio sound film in English to actually show Christ's face. Jeffrey Hunter's youthful, matinee idol appearance (although he was 33 when cast) caused some to nickname the film "I Was a Teenage Jesus",[10] a parodic reference to the 1957 horror film I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
When the movie was released on DVD in 2003, it received a PG-13 rating for some violent content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Kings_(1961_film)
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