"KING OF KINGS"
CRITICISM OF NOTED FILM POWER FOR GOOD LONDON, December 23. “The Times,” in commenting on “The King of Kings,” the new American film showing the life of Christ, says the saving consideration of the film is that Christ’s sayings will be bought nightly before thousands less conversant with the Bible than our fathers. “We cannot be wholly ungrateful for access to the New Testament through an easily appreciated medium,” says the paper. “It can hardly be hamful and conceivably it will do good.” Clergymen, who have written to the newspaper, generally welcome the film. They chiefly criticise it because there is too much sentiment. The film critic of “The Times,” commenting on th© first showing of the film to an audience composed largely of bishops and clergy, says as a delineation of Christ the film is contemptible. “There is no spiritual fire, merely conventional reverence in the meanest tradition,” he says. “Jesus fs a timid, meek figure in the film, incapable of inspiring an enduring faith. The outstanding impression is that of the producers’ sickly presumptuousness.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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179"KING OF KINGS" Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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