There is a favorite scene in "King of Kings" between that Mel Gibson would use in a similar fashion in "The Passion of the Christ" involving . Both scenes are extremely moving to me.
It came out on Blu-ray when Warner was the distributor of Paramount titles. It was released on the same day as "The Ten Commandments" on March 29, 2011. So it was overshadowed by that film, even though, it's a better film in my opinion, but, it less known.
I don't know why it wasn't discussed in this thread. It appears that our review thread got placed in the Black Hole when we probably switched to different software as one of our reviewers did a review of this movie when it came out on Blu-ray back in March, 2011. However, it was discussed in...