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    Ten Commandments, The (1956)

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    Egyptian prince Moses (Charlton Heston) discovers his real roots are Hebrew after being banished from the land by his jealous half-brother.

    tencommandments_305He returns from exile on a quest to free his people from the tyranny of the Egyptian Pharaoh (Yul Brynner) and into the desert where he receives the word of God.

    Director Cecil B DeMille had already made an earlier (silent) version of the story in 1923, before this epic 1956 reprise of the biblical tale.

    Shot in widescreen Technicolor and lasting nearly four hours, The Ten Commandments set the standard by which many epics, biblical or otherwise, would be measured.

    DeMille pulled out all the stops in terms of special effects: the images of Moses turning his staff into a snake and the Nile into blood were unprecedented visual innovations at the time, and the parting of the Red Sea remains one of Hollywood’s most treasured ‘miracles’ of special effects.

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    When DeMille was accused of overspending during the production of the film, he responded thusly: “What do they want me to do? Stop now and release it as The Five Commandments?”

    tencommandmentsMoses
    Charlton Heston
    Rameses
    Yul Brynner
    Nefretiri
    Anne Baxter
    Dathan
    Edward G Robinson
    Sephora
    Yvonne De Carlo
    Lilia
    Debra Paget
    Joshua
    John Derek
    Bithiah
    Nina Foch
    Aaron
    John Carradine
    Baka
    Vincent Price
    Sethi
    Cedric Hardwicke
    Yochabel
    Martha Scott
    Memnet
    Judith Anderson
    Miriam
    Olive Deering
    Jannes
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Infant Moses
    Fraser C Heston
    King of Ethiopia
    Woody Strode
    Narrator
    Cecil B DeMille

    Director
    Cecil B DeMille

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