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The Ten Commandments

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G,3hrs 39min

Genres:

Drama,Action

Released:

October 5, 1956

Director:

Cecil B. DeMille

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures

Starring:

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter ...more

Synopsis: Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. Moses (Charlton Heston) starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son (and a whiz at designing pyramids, dispensing such construction-site ... Full Synopsis

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	Richard Gilliam, AMG Review The Ten Commandments was the final film in the five-decade career of legendary producer/director Cecil B. DeMille and, despite its flaws, it remains a primary example of combining high production values and epic scope for a box-office blockbuster. Expanded from one of the segments in DeMille's 1923 silent film of the same name (though not exactly a remake of that film as is often claimed - the earlier ... Full Review

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	Charlton Heston Moses, God (Uncredited) Yul Brynner Rameses Anne Baxter Nefertiri, Nefertiti, Nefretiti Edward G. Robinson Dathan

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