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Movie
language
English
duration
220 min
genre
drama
theme
epic
director
Cecil B. DeMille
Score
7 / 10

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the Bible's first five books and other sources, it dramatizes the story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi I, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others.

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After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses's recently widowed daughter (and sister of the future Pharaoh Sethi I), finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy, even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes that the child is Hebrew. Bithiah names the baby Moses.

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    award Academy Award for Best Special Effects
    contentLocation Africa
    director Cecil B. DeMille
    editor Anne Bauchens
    events slavery
    genre drama
    keywords amalekites ancient egypt arrest baby biological mother bithiah build burn burning bush canaan claim cobra crossing the red sea crush dathan drown egypt ethiopia exodus final task force general golden calf hard labor hear hebrew hell israelite jannes jannes and jambres jethro jochebed joshua khnum kill levite married midian moses mount nebo mount sinai nefertari nefretiri nile orgy parts the red sea pharaoh pharaoh's daughter pillar of fire plague plagues of egypt plan rameses rameses ii ramesses ii red sea river saturnalia sephora sethi i seti i slave sole heir stone summon tablets of stone ten commandments turn two stone tablets voice voice of god widow win yochabel zipporah
    musicBy Elmer Bernstein
    nomination Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Special Effects
    producer Cecil B. DeMille
    productionCompany Motion Picture Associates
    publisher Paramount Pictures
    theme epic silent