Essential Cinema: The Epic Kink of Cecil B. DeMille
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
USA, 1932, 2h 5min, 35mm
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
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“A festival of excess in a pagan province.”
—Bright Lights Film Journal
“DeMille has never staged a spectacle more stately or powerful than his arena sequence nor touched such spiritual splendor.”
—The Los Angeles Times
This pre-code biblical epic is probably best known for its salacious sequence in which Claudette Colbert takes a milk bath, but even more shocking is the climactic, snuff-film-like spectacle in the Roman Colosseum. With Charles Laughton as a ripe, camp Emperor Nero and Fredric March. In 35mm.
