The ten commandments

Resource Information

The work The ten commandments represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The ten commandments

Statement of responsibility

Paramount presents a Cecil B. de Mille production ; [produced by Motion Picture Associates, Inc.] ; written for the screen by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank ; produced and directed by Cecil B. De Mille

Title variation

50th anniversary collection

Contributor

• Motion Pictures Associates
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992
• Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992
• Baxter, Anne
• Baxter, Anne
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Brynner, Yul
• Brynner, Yul
• Carradine, John
• Carradine, John
• De Carlo, Yvonne
• De Carlo, Yvonne
• DeMille, Cecil B., (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959
• DeMille, Cecil B., (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959
• Derek, John, 1926-1998
• Derek, John, 1926-1998
• Foch, Nina
• Foch, Nina
• Frank, Fredric M., (Fredric Maurice), 1911-1977
• Frank, Fredric M., (Fredric Maurice), 1911-1977
• Gariss, Jack
• Gariss, Jack
• Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964
• Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964
• Heston, Charlton
• Heston, Charlton
• Lasky, Jesse L., 1880-1958
• Lasky, Jesse L., 1880-1958
• MacKenzie, Aeneas
• MacKenzie, Aeneas
• MacPherson, Jeanie, 1887-1946
• MacPherson, Jeanie, 1887-1946
• Orrison, Katherine, 1948-
• Orrison, Katherine, 1948-
• Paget, Debra, 1933-
• Paget, Debra, 1933-
• Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
• Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
• Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
• Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
• Scott, Martha, 1914-2003
• Scott, Martha, 1914-2003
• Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976
• Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976

Subject

• Bible films
• Bible films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Religious films
• Religious films
• Video recordings
• Video recordings

Genre

• Bible films
• Feature films
• Religious films
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, 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. He also gains 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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Loyal Griggs ; editing, Anne Bauchens ; music, Elmer Bernstein

Language note

• Closed-captioned
• 1956 version: widescreen version ; English and dubbed French dialogue, English subtitles
• 1923 version: full screen format ; English with French subtitles

PerformerNote

Charlton Heston (Moses), Yul Brynner (Rameses), Anne Baxter (Nefretiri), Edward G. Robinson (Dathan), Yvonne De Carlo (Sephora), Debra Paget (Lilia), John Derek (Joshua), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Sethi), Nina Foch (Bithiah), Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine

Runtime

220

Target audience

general

Technique

live action