==from the Criterion website==The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Note: the Criterion DVD has both the 155 minute premiere version, shown at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA and at the Gaiety in NY, as well as the 112 minute "road show" version (what everyone else saw!).