EVERYBODY’S
“THE KING OF KINGS” “The King of Kings,” now being showing at Everybody's Theatre, is daily drawing large audiences. A critic, writing about the cabled accounts of English criticism, said: As seen to-day. the picture revealed no phases to which exception could be taken on the score of irreverent treat - ment of the great subject involved. This version of the New Testament story moves with convincing smoothness, leading up to the Crucifixion and the events of the first Easter Morning. The film possesses great emotional force, but the pathos has been cleverly handled, and the dramatic scenes are presented in masterly fashion. Few more poignant scenes could l»e imagined than the raising of Lazarus, the betrayal by Judas, and the sequence of events immediately preceding the trial before Caiaphus. Much of the work is in technicolour, remarkably true to tone and period. No cast of characters appears on the screen. The personalities of those taking part have been entirely subordinated to the massive theme, and its sympathetic, careful treatment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 15
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170EVERYBODY’S Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 15
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