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The Ten Commandments was the highest-grossing film of 1956, and the second most successful film of the decade. By April 1957, the film had earned an unprecedented $10 million from engagements at just eighty theaters, averaging about $1 million per week, with more than seven million people paying to watch it. [64]
Recently viewed. The Ten Commandments: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson. 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.
- Bkoganbing
- 2 min
- Cecil B. Demille
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The Ten Commandments (1956) The Ten Commandments (1956) was Cecil B. DeMille's most spectacular and unequalled historical epic and also his last film (his 70th). The 3 hour, 40 minute film (divided into two parts with an intermission) was the highest-earning live-action film of the decade of the 1950s until Ben-Hur (1959) toppled it.
Enjoying a life of ease in the court of Egypt's pharaoh, Moses (Charlton Heston) discovers his Hebrew heritage and, later, God's expectations of him. He dedicates himself to liberating his people ...
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- Cecil B. Demille
- G
- Charlton Heston
Among the film's noted special effects was the parting of the Red Sea, which was supervised by John P. Fulton, who also did the special effects for DeMille's 1923 version of The Ten Commandments. For the 1956 film, the huge Red Sea set included two giant water tanks, according to an April 1955 New York Times report, which covered not only a 300 ...
Chosen to become the ailing Pharaoh Sethi's (Sir Cedric Hardwicke's) successor, the young Prince Moses (Charlton Heston) is disliked by his haughty step-brother Rameses II (Yul Brynner). However, when the once-abandoned child discovers his origins, he is banished, only to become God's personal messenger. Now, Moses' heavy mission is to return ...
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