The Ten Commandments
The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 3 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson & Yvonne De Carlo | |
Performer: | Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, H.B. Warner & Henry Wilcoxon | |
Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille | |
Edited by | Anne Bauchens | |
Screenwriting by | Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss & Fredric M. Frank | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler & Albert Nozaki | |
Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille | |
Director of Photography: | Loyal Griggs |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1956 -
Best Special Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
With a running time of nearly four hours, Cecil B. De Mille's last feature and most extravagant blockbuster is full of the absurdities and vulgarities one expects, but it isn't boring for a minute.
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Chicago Reader
DeMille remains conventional with the motion picture as an art form. The eyes of the onlooker are filled with spectacle. Emotional tug is sometimes lacking.
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Variety
[It] remains the definitive Biblical epic.
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...Laughs, thrills, and a cheap, secular sort of wonderment....Genuinely dramatic work... -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Cecil B. de Mille's vastly expanded remake of his 1923 silent epic takes three hours and thirty-nine minutes to sit through, and the time, for me, often dragged heavily.
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Maclean's Magazine
...The prologue has tremendous sweep and scale...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Stirring, even if it's as much showbiz as Bible.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. The film begins as the pharaoh's daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses and takes him to the shelter of her family. Charlton Heston stars as the young man raised by the pharaoh as an Egyptian prince. Moses is righteous and kind, the favored successor to the kingdom, which results in the deep-seated jealousy of Prince Rameses (Yul Brynner). Rameses and Moses compete for the throne and the love of the young princess, Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), until Moses learns the truth about his origins and joins the Jewish slaves in their fight for freedom. After receiving the Ten Commandments from God, Moses helps free the Jews from the pharaoh's tyrannical rule, surmounting all obstacles in his way--including the parting of the Red Sea, in one of the movie's most famous scenes. Cecil B. DeMille's extravagant final film--and remake of his silent 1923 version--is a legendary combination of the master showman's love of historical realism, spectacle, lavish scenic design, and dizzying crowd sequences. The exodus alone is a stunning feat of modern cinema, featuring thousands of actors trekking through the arid desert as Pharaoh's chariots chase after them.
Keywords:
Bible Epic
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Classic
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Religion
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Epic
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Passover
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Jewish Heritage
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Recommended
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Ancient World
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Theatrical Release
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Remake
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Religious Beliefs
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Religious Faith
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Spiritual
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Bible (The)
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Essential Cinema
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Spirituality
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 108,850
- UPC: 032429258328
- Shipping Weight: 0.18/lbs (approx)
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