Title: The Ten Commandments
Runtime: 220 Min
Year: 1956
Genres: Adventure - Drama - History
Cast: 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 DeKova, Henry Wilcoxon, Eduard Franz
Directed By: Cecil B. DeMille
PLOT
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: Dorothy Clarke Wilson this work contains material from the book "Prince of Egypt" & J.H. Ingraham this work contains material from the book "Pillar of Fire" (as Rev. J.H. Ingraham) & A.E. Southon this work contains material from the book "On Eagle's Wing" (as Rev. A.E. Southon) Æneas MacKenzie (written for the screen by) & Jesse Lasky Jr. (written for the screen by) (as Jesse L. Lasky Jr.) & Jack Gariss (written for the screen by) & Fredric M. Frank (written for the screen by)
Awards:
1957- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Effects, Special Effects John P. Fulton (WON)
-Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Sam Comer and Ray Moyer (NOMINATED)
-Best Cinematography, Color Loyal Griggs (NOMINATED)
-Best Costume Design, Color, Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg (NOMINATED)
-Best Film Editing Anne Bauchens (NOMINATED)
-Best Picture Cecil B. DeMille (NOMINATED)
-Best Sound, Recording Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD) (NOMINATED)
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