The Ten Commandments | film by DeMille [1956] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• discussed in biography
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    In Cecil B. DeMille: Films of the 1940s and 1950s: North West Mounted Police to The Ten Commandments
    DeMille’s final movie, The Ten Commandments (1956), was a remake of his 1923 film but without the modern-day story. Heston starred (in his best-known role) as Moses and Yul Brynner as his foe the Pharaoh Ramses. The vast scale of The Ten Commandments (particularly in the scenes of…
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• motion-picture art
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    In film: Film design
    DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments (1956) or in the comparatively simple treatment of angels and miracles in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) or Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978). Film publicity makes much of the creation of epics such as Cleopatra (1963) or the three-part…
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• production by Paramount Pictures
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    In Paramount Pictures
    …The Covered Wagon (1923), and The Ten Commandments (1923), a biblical epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
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• score by Bernstein
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    In Elmer Bernstein
    …with the stirring music for The Ten Commandments (1956).
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role of

• Brynner
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    In Yul Brynner
    DeMille’s The Ten Commandments and an unscrupulous Russian businessman in Anastasia (both 1956), Other roles were those of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and the lead gunslinger in The Magnificent Seven (1960). Brynner continued to appear on the big screen into the mid-1970s. His most…
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• Price
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    In Vincent Price
    DeMille’s biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956).
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