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 d
Survivors also include his sister Debra Paget, who starred in such films as Broken Arrow (1950), Love Me Tender (1956) — Elvis Presley’s first movie — and The Ten Commandments (1956).His other two sisters were actresses as well: Lisa Gaye,... See full article at The Hollywood ...
Most interesting was the original 1956 ad. At 10 minutes, this was probably the longest trailer I ever witnessed, and it was one of the oddest as well. Much of the clip showed DeMille; first he expanded upon the introduction that starts Commandments, and he also talked about the flick as...
Year of Release: 1956 Country: U.S. Cecil B. DeMille's opulent Technicolor Biblical epic The Ten Commandments, a version of which he had previously directed in 1923, is the cinematic equivalent of really bad religious art: Those who love it and find it spiritually moving truly, deeply lov...
The 1956 Hollywood biblical epic The Ten Commandments was directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Charlton Heston in the lead role of Moses. The film is epic in scope, running for 220 minutes, and tells the story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt. The movie is a classic tale of hope ...
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS This 1956 classic, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, is still one of the all-time great Hollywood blockbusters, while the dramatic scene where he parts the Red Sea - which won a special effects Oscar - remains one of the most recognised in movie history. TOP HOLLYWOOD ...
Thesis: The movie The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. Demille has created lots of original plots out of the texts of Exodus and by its various exclusive inventions, there were both shortcomings and merits of this movie. The shortcomings were that the movie was secularized compared with the narrat...
hindered his career somewhat during the early 1950s, Bernstein continued to get work, and in the mid-’50s he established his reputation with the groundbreaking jazz-infused score for The Man with the Golden Arm and proved his versatility with the stirring music for The Ten Commandments (1956)...
6. The Ten Commandments (1956) Estimated admissions: 131 million tickets Estimated adjusted gross: $1.18 billion The 3-hour-and-40-minute feature debuted in 1956 and earned $65.5 million. The iconic film, which featured famed actors Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses II, sold...
DeMille's (inflation adjusted) 1956 remake of his own 1923 silent film classic The Ten Commandments, being the sole exception. In comparison, all the studio's biggest box-office successes of the mid-1970s, John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever and Grease, as well as Mario Puzo's The ...