The Ten Commandments
In order to save her son from the slaughter according to the Pharaoh order of killing every born males, fearing from the next messenger that will take the throne from him, Moses mother has put him in a wooden box in the Nile, in order to save him from the killing, but incidents come to climax when he is taken by the pharaoh's palace, where he has been raised, but everything changes when he becomes the next messenger that is sent by God to guide people and set them free from slavery and corruption.
July 29, 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA
8 February 1914
13 December 1945, Long Beach, California, USA
22 November 1932, New York City, New York, USA
August 29, 1929 in Boardman, Ohio, USA
30 November 1946, Hollywood, California, USA
20 October 1895, Cairo, Illinois, USA
11 March 1908, Italy
22 September 1912, Jamesport, Missouri, USA
20 October 1902, Zanesville, Ohio, USA
13 March 1907, DeSoto, Missouri, USA
June 8, 1907 in Switzerland
6 February 1904
6 January 1920, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 February 1897, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
6 December 1942, USA
5 December 1915, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 1, 1904 in Russia
8 September 1905, Dominica, British West Indies
1 March 1908, London, England, UK
August 12, 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 March 1940, The Bronx, New York, USA
28 November 1909, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 March 1914, Dallas, Texas, USA
18 April 1933, USA
8 November 1924, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
March 04, 2008
A great big wallow, sublime hootchy-kootchy hokum, peppered with lightning that does automatic writing and an unsurpassed homage to the joys of jello.
November 02, 2006
Still the definitive depiction of the Exodus in the popular imagination.
May 06, 2006
An epic soap opera of an event -- the running time is longer than any church service -- that still impresses more than it amuses.
December 15, 2010
Stirring, even if it's as much showbiz as Bible.
October 19, 2007
DeMille remains conventional with the motion picture as an art form. The eyes of the onlooker are filled with spectacle. Emotional tug is sometimes lacking.
March 25, 2011
DeMille's last film (he died in 1959) is also his biggest, most spectacular epic, excessive and lurid, displaying him as a showman--must see for Hollywood students
February 09, 2006
It's the gigantic vulgarity, the obsessive righteousness of the director himself, which keeps the show on the road and suffuses the movie with its daft power.
December 10, 2014
DeMille's direction of the action is superb and the various roles are played with feeling by a large and competent cast, headed by Charlton Heston.
March 04, 2008
Bank holiday afternoon fare it might be, but DeMille's remake of his 1923 silent is a marvellous epic of the kind they don't make any more.
March 04, 2008
With a running time of nearly four hours, Cecil B. De Mille's last feature and most extravagant blockbuster is full of the absurdities and vulgarities one expects, but it isn't boring for a minute.
April 21, 2011
It seems as if some films are perpetually being restored, with each new version touted as better than the last. That said, I can assure you that the new DVD and Blu-ray edition of...
April 07, 2015
There is no other picture like it. There will be none. If it could be summed up in a word, the word would be sublime. And the man responsible for that, when all is said and done is Cecil B. DeMille.
