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Average Rating: Rating: - Beautifully Boxed 40th Anniversary Edition of this Epic This was Cecil B. De Mille's last film as a director. De Mille's old-fashioned style of filmmaking and story telling is elegant, larger-than-life and rather elegiac and exactly suited for the enormous task of bringing this spectacle to the screen. Charlton Heston gives an excellent and powerfully dramatic performance as Moses. Yul Brynner, who approaches his role with style and confidence, is the prince who outmaneuvers Moses to the Egyptian throne in one of the best performances of his career. Supporting Heston and Brynner is a diverse and powerful cast of actors and performers. John Derek is memorable as Joshua the stone cutter. Anne Baxteris Nefretiri who yearns for the love of Moses. Cedric Hardwicke is an agreeable and levelheaded Pharaoh Sethi. Edward G. Robinson is the traitor to his people memorable for constructing the false idol golden calf. Vincent Price is the villainous and diabolically likable Baka. The beautiful Debra Paget is Baka's slave girl Lilia. Yvonne De Carlo gives a very thoughtful performance as Sephora, Moses' earthly love. John Carradine is Aaron. Woody Strode can be seen as the King of Ethiopia. Laboriously produced, Cecil B. De Mille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS looks as though it was filmed and acted in a style more suitable to the early days of Hollywood. But that is a very positive quality. The film takes biblical events and turns them into Hollywood's version of history quite effectively. This style of filmmaking brings the larger-than-life scope of the Old Testament to the screen preserving the mystery and awesome power of the concept of a monotheistic divinity. One very effective feature of this film that reinforces this concept are the unearthly looking special effects, which are so eerily disturbing and beyond our comprehension that they truly approach a successful vision of the universal power of God. These distinctively unique special effects by the innovative John P. Fulton are essential to the telling of this story. Elmer Bernstein's rousing and inspirational score is brilliantly moving as it reinforces the vision that De Mille has created. Interestingly, in the earlier parts of this film De Mille shows us the construction of an Egyptian empire. We are witness to and experience the ingenuity of man to engineer and create such mammoth structures. But De Mille through the use of these special effects wipes all this out and shows the futility of man's efforts to subjugate other men when divine intervention prevails. This is such a brilliantly visual film that it still evokes awe and wonder to this day. This 40th Anniversary boxed set handsomely holds the restored and widescreen version of this epic film. Rating: - A Classic Easter Tradition "The Ten Commandments" is the Easter movie we look forward to in our family, just as "White Christmas" is the one we wait for in December. I'm not sure why we love this movie so much....the acting ranges from competent (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, in his subtle portrait of the Pharaoh Sethi) to really irritating (Charlton Heston, who takes himself much too seriously in the role of Moses). The script is also horrendous in spots; the most memorable lines are Yul Brynner's deadpan "So let it be written, so let it be done!" and Anne Baxter's overly dramatic, "Oh Moses, Moses! You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!" But many of the great classic movies have poor acting and weak scripts. This movie is still a lot of fun to watch. Even young Sunday School children are familiar with the story of Moses, and they will perhaps enjoy this film even more than an adult. There is literally a "cast of thousands," gorgeous spectacles, heros, villains (Edward G. Robinson as a corrupt Hebrew overseer is believable!), and some fun special effects. This is a movie I definitely want in my collection of classics! Rating: - The Old Testament according to Cecil This old-fashioned style of filmmaking is elegant and rather elegiac. Charlton Heston gives an excellent and powerfully dramatic performance as Moses. Yul Brynner is the prince who beats Moses to the Egyptian throne in one of the best performances of his career. Brynner approaches his role with style and confidence. John Derek is memorable as the stone cutter. After that, it's pure Hollywood. Anne Baxter plays Anne Baxter. Cedric Hardwicke is a likeable and levelheaded Pharaoh. Edward G. Robinson is the traitor to the Jews. Vincent Price is so ever diabolical. Inspirationally directed and produced by Cecil B. De Mille, I always liked this film. The film's masterpieces are Elmer Bernstein's rousing and inspirational score and distinctively unique special effects by the innovative John P. Fulton.

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