A 1948 Western following Thomas Dunson’s cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, and the slow, inevitable rupture between him and his adopted son Matt. Built on restraint and duration, it treats authority, succession and landscape as interlocking forces — not as myth, but as gruelling, embodied work.
Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 silent film The King of Kings depicts the life of Jesus with deliberate spectacle—Technicolor halos, sepia-tinted sermons, hand-coloured torchlight—and a script that blends Gospel texts with invented moments designed to jolt contemporary audiences. H. B. Warner stars as a calm, physically present Christ; Jacqueline Logan plays a vividly secular Mary Magdalene. Though structurally episodic and occasionally blunt in its symbolism, the film remains a landmark of studio-era craft, theological address, and early colour technology.