The Ten Commandments • 1956 • Charles Heston Classic (Adventure/Drama/Family/History)

The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History. It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God. Paramount Pictures is proud to announce the return of the greatest motion picture of all time❗️ (1966 re-release).

📽 The Ten Commandments • 1956 • (Adventure/Drama/Family/History) • G •🕞3h 40m

🌟 Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter •🎬Director: Cecil B. DeMille •📝Writers: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon
——• 👀 Plot:
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston) is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Sethi (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). Moses (Charlton Heston) gains Sethi's favor and the love of the throne Princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), as well as the hatred of Sethi's son, Rameses II (Yul Brynner). When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt and makes his way across the desert, where he marries, has a son, and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt, Moses' fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses II, but someone near to him who can "harden his heart".

——• 💡 Trivia:
▸ At least 14,000 extras and 15,000 animals were used in this movie.
▸ Cecil B. DeMille picked Charlton Heston for the role of Moses because he bore a resemblance to Michelangelo's statue of Moses in Rome, Italy. Heston played Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)."
▸ Producer/director Cecil B. DeMille suffered a heart attack during production, after climbing 130 feet to check a faulty camera perched on one of the giant gates used during the exodus sequence. He took two days off, then returned to work, against his doctor's orders, to complete this movie.
▸ When Yul Brynner was told he would be playing Pharaoh Rameses II opposite Charlton Heston's Moses, and that he would be shirtless for most of the movie, he began a rigorous weightlifting program because he didn't want Heston to physically overshadow him. That explains his buffer-than-normal physique during The King and I (1956), which he made just after this film. Heston later said that Brynner gave the best performance in this movie.
▸ According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence that precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horeb with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are engraved, producer and director Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. 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. DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here", DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After an embarrassed pause, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend here, 'I wonder when that baldrt is gonna call 'Lunch!'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"

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