Ten Commandments (1956)
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List Price: $14.95
Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• NTSC
In Theaters : 05 October, 1956
Video Release : 07 December, 1992 |
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Ten Commandments (1956) Customer Reviews
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The definitive Ten Commandments.
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An interesting title as the Commandment part is a tad closer to the end of the movie. Cecil B. DeMille takes a few liberties with history; however if he did not then this would have been some dry documentary instead of a great epic. This story is more of the life and times of Moses from birth to the last farewell. We see rivalry, temptation, brick making and dancing girls.
One item that Cecil tactfully worked around is where do you think Anne Baxter ...Nefretiri came from? Can you say sister? As the bloodlines from Egyptians, came through the women. That is why who ever married her would become pharaoh.
The graphics are great for the time; the plagues are really spooky and we all still hold the image of the parting of the sea. The acting has that 50's epic feel. Elmer Bernstein's music adds a hidden dimension to the story and you will not be able to get it out of your head. Edward G. Robinson made a great Dathan; He gets to be a modern day Dathan in "Key Largo" (1948). Is it not interesting that Pharaoh Rameses in The Prince of Egypt - DTS (1998) looks like Yul Brynner?
This is the one version most people relate too. The story has been told before and after this version. Some people know this version better than the real one.
Some of the other "Ten Commandments" floating around out there:
The Ten Commandments (1923).
The Ten Commandments (1956).
Greatest Heroes of the Bible - The Ten Commandments (1978).
Ten Commandments 1 & 2 (2000).
Ancient Secrets of the Bible - "Moses' Ten Commandments: Tablets From God?"
The Prince of Egypt - DTS (1998).
[[ASIN:B000CNESNA The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection)]]
[[ASIN:B000WS4S6C The Ten Commandments - Alfred Molina,]]
[[ASIN:B000E97HXK The Ten Commandments - Claire Bloom]]
[[ASIN:B000HXDWIM The Ten Commandments: The Musical]]
[[ASIN:B000AABL7G Biography - Moses and the Ten Commandments]]
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