All that splashy color cinematogaphy and eye filling spectacle | Though he was no director of actors and his sense of drama was generations old, DeMille was a firm believer in two things, fill the screen and make the films move |
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The guy that put this together is some kind of special genius | 50 years later the parting of the Red Sea will still make one gasp |
After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was talking to another woman standing next to her.
14'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch! You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor | Given the computer technology available today, one can only imagine what Cecil B |
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This prologue has always been cut in the film's network television showings | Robinson had been dropping in star status since the late Forties and was now doing mostly B films |
DeMille made one great casting decision in getting the only actor who could play Moses and make it believable.
5Anne Baxter is a royal princess promised to the next Pharoah designate | Most of the last half of The Ten Commandments is a running verbal battle between Heston and Robinson who is trying to keep some kind of control |
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DeMille came to Hollywood he was an actor and playwright on Broadway | Or Yvonne DeCarlo saying to Charlton Heston that he Moses is God's torch to light the way to freedom and that by the way she loves him? Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy |
Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.
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