1956 Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Anne Baxter Edward G. Robinson Yvonne De Carlo Debra Paget John Derek Cedric Hardwicke Nina Foch Martha Scott Judith Anderson Vincent Price John Carradine Olive Deering Douglass Dumbrille Frank De Kova Henry Wilcoxon Eduard Franz Donald Curtis Lawrence Dobkin H.B. Warner Julia Faye Lisa Mitchell Noelle Williams Joanna Merlin Pat Richard Joyce van der Veen Diane Hall Abbas El Boughdadly Show All…
Jesse Lasky Jr. J.H. Ingraham A.E. Southon Dorothy Clarke Wilson Æneas MacKenzie Jack Gariss Fredric M. Frank
Les 10 commandements, De Tien Geboden, Los diez mandamientos, Os Dez Mandamentos - 1956, De tio budorden
In the film, Chuck Heston is found passed out by a bunch of beautiful maidens, after almost dying in the desert. The maidens get all hot and bothered by finding him, and then they all want to marry him. I feel like if a bunch of maidens found me passed out after almost dying in the desert, they would just leave me to die. Such is life I guess.
On a more serious note, I have seen this flick on VHS, TV, DVD, and a 35mm print, but nothing even came close to seeing this on Blu. Everything looks so amazing, that it is pretty much like watching a stage performance in person.
The Ten Commandments is a shining example of epic filmmaking on a grandiose scale. It's also an example of overstuffed self indulgence. The film recites Moses entire biblical life story and in doing so there are segments when the film is firing on all cylinders and other times where boredom creeps in.
From a pure filmmaking standpoint this film is quite an achievement. It has magnificent sets, excellent performers and great cinematography. However, despite all these great aspects, I can't get away from how overlong this film is. A full hour could be shaved off and the film would be far better for it. The following 30 to 40 minutes post intermission really dragged and had me checking the runtime…
**Part of the Best Picture Project**
Though he had planned to make another film, it's appropriate that Cecil B. DeMille's last film ended up being The Ten Commandments. It's a film entirely devoted to the epic spectacle that DeMille's legacy would leave behind. It's big and grand in scope, and truly devoted to the fantastical.
Dramatized from the second book of the Bible, Exodus (with some portions from Numbers and Deuteronomy taken as well), it's a well known story that seems almost appropriate for DeMille's sense of scale. Everything doesn't just look big, but the film feels big, and at nearly 4 hours, it's hard for it not to.
Charlton Heston's notable wooden acting comes in handy here to the…
The movie everyone have seen at least once on Easter, at least you are me, then you've only seen the ending.
I was ready to give this at least a 4 star, but as the movie progressed, the movie kept pulling out the strings of my own personal belief to not avail. Like seriously, the movie feature Joshua throughout its almost 4hrs runtime, and Aaron by the end. Like wtf? B**ch haven't you read the bible? Joshua was born on the desert, Joshua was around my age when he enter the Jericho, not like a 100 old dude or something. And where's Aaron? Seriously movie, you have all time to give it to a stupid, non-nonsensical and non-existent romance in…
Within the oeuvre of biblical movies, there are not many which are as significant as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. Premiering in 1956, this was an extraordinary landmark event shot in VistaVision and containing giant sets, extravagant costumes; a reported fourteen thousand extras and fifteen thousand animals. It dramatises the biblical narrative of the life of Moses, although it's unmistakable that DeMille’s ecclesiastical concerns were a calculated emblem of Americans being victorious over the Russians. It stars Charlton Heston in the lead role and Yul Brynner as Rameses, and despite the presence of my atheism it's impossible to feel anything other than respect and admiration for the astonishing technical achievements within this movie.
Letters to the Director #7- The Ten Commandments, the 1956 version
To Mr. Cecil B. DeMille,
Whenever a filmmaker gets to their final film, they need to leave a legacy behind to showcase what made that filmmaker what they were in their lifetime. Though you had already made a movie called The Ten Commandments during the Silent Era and was considered an epic masterpiece at the time, you had always wanted to recreate the story of Moses during the rising innovations of sound and color. The final film released during your lifetime, The Ten Commandments to this day is highly regarded as not only the best film you ever made, but one of the finest epics ever made, one that's…
It took me long enough but only now I had finally gotten around to watching Cecil B. DeMille's final success of The Ten Commandments. Around the Easter season this film always plays on television but I've never actually convinced myself to watch it all the way through because I always found the length to be intimidating and coming around to a Hollywood Biblical epic has never been a great priority of mine. It's easy to admire the craft behind some of these films (Ben-Hur for one I do believe is excellent as it stands), but it can be hard enough wanting a desire to revisit these films. I was fearing exactly that before watching The Ten Commandments but after having…
Four full hours with stiff and hammy acting sure makes for a tiresome experience. It's impressive in scale, but not in terms of storytelling. Times is spent on all the wrong things, and I bet an hour could be cut without it changing the main story one bit. I mean, 50 minutes in, Moses has barely had anything interesting to say, and no feelings towards him have been established...
Luckily it picks itself up when Moses is banished. The story and arc of Moses is much better handled, finally letting the audience join in on the experience. Still the dialogue and the acting is as hammy as ever. At least it provides some striking imagery, and some fine location work.
For a similar type of movie, watch the brilliant Ben-Hur instead. Superior in probably every department, and one the finest epics in the history of cinema.
A giant and memorable epic that surpasses all kinds of expectations. Who on Earth could forget about that grand Blockbuster effect in all of its glory? A very powerful and loyal testament except, as always, for the physical appearance representations of the characters.
87/100
"Those who do not live by the law... shall die by the law!"
The word "Epic" gets thrown around to easy nowadays to describe films with CGI, explosions and men in costumes. There are a handful of films I would tag as "Epic", Cecil B. DeMille The Ten Commandments is one of them.
The grandeur of the film is not only view in the story itself but in the production, the acting and the scope, this is one of those rare films that set a bar for a genre and a generation.
Charlton Heston is a master actor, the man is impressive, an spectacular performance. The rest of the cast was outstanding but Heston was in another level, the man…
É realmente impressionante como o Demile consegue criar um senso de epicidade através de algo teatral e exagerado. As cores fortes, os cenarios e luzes artificiais junto com as próprias atuações acabam reforçando isso. Não achei que fosse gostar tanto, mas gostei.
os gansos sendo atropelados quando o mar abre top 1 momentos era de ouro de hollywood
Puede que la historia de la película la hayamos escuchado cientos de veces, pero que gran historia; más allá del apartado religioso, es una de las grandes gestas jamás narradas. Parece mentira que en los cincuenta pudieran realizar películas tan majestuosas, sin duda alguna, una película imperecedera.
A perfect and honest representation of the hero's journey , with the right amount of theatrical acting
Rating this film any less than a 4.5/5 is a criminal offence, yet people still do it?
O filme possui uma abordagem bem teatral, ainda mais sendo filmado na maior parte em estúdio, o que talvez arriscaria para algo mais caricato, mas que aqui tem um efeito de devoção religiosa. Chega a ser engraçado em alguns momentos o contraste que os cenários tem com os efeitos especiais.
Enquanto assistia tudo tinha uma megalomania, mas pensando agora parece que tudo fica meio reduzido por tanto excesso de efeitos. Não que o filme não tenha seus momentos grandiosos, como a abertura do mar e a parte final, da adoração ao ídolo de ouro. Também é meio bizarro os vários momentos em que o povo parece nunca estabelecer uma relação de fé, está sempre fugindo mesmo com as coisas se…
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