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The Ten Commandments

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Charlton Heston (Actor), Yul Brynner (Actor), Cecil B. DeMille (Director) Rated:

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Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also making the sexy action around the cult of the Golden Calf look like fun. You have to see The Ten Commandments to understand its peculiar resonance as an old-new movie, complete with several still-impressive effects such as the parting of the Red Sea. --Tom Keogh

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.66:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ G (General Audience)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 4.8 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Cecil B. DeMille
Media Format ‏ : ‎ AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 40 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 1999
Actors ‏ : ‎ Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0792154649
Writers ‏ : ‎ A.E. Southon, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Fredric M. Frank, J.H. Ingraham, Jack Gariss
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Kim43

My all time favorite movie since I saw it on the big screen at the ripe old age of 12.

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019

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I've watched this classic more times than I can count in the ensuing 63 years, and never tire of it! For me, it's a worship experience. I never tire of seeing the glorious works of our awesome Lord God portrayed. It makes me yearn even more for the day He will return to earth to bring all his children home to heaven to spend eternity with Him. What will happen to you when that day (the Rapture) comes? If you've never asked Jesus into your life as your Savior & Lord, do so now! Then read I John along with the Gospel of John for greater understanding. May God bless you!

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George Guzman

Cecil B. DeMille's final feature, and it would ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2018

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Cecil B. DeMille's final feature, and it would end up being his most famous, as well as his most beloved. The story is already familiar to many, so what should be talked about is the incredible sets, as well as locals. It feels SO authentic as compared to these days, where we have green or blue screen and all the digital work that goes with it. For some reason, Hollywood today has a harder time making Biblical epics. It just lacks the spectacle of yesteryear.

And of course, when one thinks of Moses, it is safe to say the Charlton Heston is the only one that comes to everyone's mind!

61 people found this helpful

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Best Version short of a theater experience

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017

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The best version ever. The sound was brought up to modern standards and the image quality is excellent. I expected with a HD TV the quality would not be that good but it was stunning. You won't be sorry you purchased this one.

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Rich

A spectacle of the likes we will never see again.

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

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I'm reviewing the Prime Streaming Video HD version which I purchased for a paltry sum. I've always loved this movie, although I am not really all that religious I just think it's a great story and I wanted it in my library to watch when I please. This is an excellent restored version of the movie, the vivid colors of the costumes jump off the screen and the resolution is crisp as it must have been when first shown in the theaters. I remember watching this movie 30 years ago on TV and it was deteriorating badly, everything was a reddish-brown. The restoration is amazing. I know a lot of people think the acting is a bit hammy, but you have to remember Cecil B. DeMille made his bones in the silent movie era when over-acting was necessary to make up for the lack of verbal dialogue. All of his movies display this. Don't blame the actors, they are simply performing to CB's direction. It's still an all-time classic, everything is bigger than life, thousands of extras and animals that CB somehow managed to create this cinematic masterpiece.

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SueJean

A Great Movie Made Even Greater!

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014

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This is an "old familiar" movie that I've watched so many times before that I know the faces and the lines of the actors by heart. After dumping all of our VHS movies and player, we've been slow about re-buying all of our old favorites. Every year for the last few years, we kept saying that we had to get a copy of "The Ten Commandments" and it kept moving down the priority list. Finally, I decided to just go ahead and do it and since we love this movie, I thought let's spring for the extra few bucks and go Blu-ray.

I have to add here that I've not been too impressed with Blu-ray or HD TV. It's nice, but I have to admit that I'm no longer that driven with chasing after the latest, newest technology. I just like to sit down and watch a good movie every once in a while and not have to spend a small fortune trying to keep up with all of that. I wasn't expecting too much with this purchase. I was just hoping for a good copy of a great movie to add to our collection.

Having said all that, I have to say this, "WOW!!!" We were totally overwhelmed with the color, the clarity, the sound! It was like watching a brand new movie and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. The colors really popped and the clarity was brilliant. I don't know anything about the technology of making a movie over into Blu-ray format, but this is one movie that was actually made better by the change. We were really glad that we paid the extra for this format.

There is one little note that I have to add. (Spoiler alert). I don't know why, but they weren't able to bring that sickly green glow into that "death mist" and it lost a bit of it's scariness just looking like fog moving on the ground. Too bad about that as it's one of those defining moments in the movie that something "supernatural" is occurring. Gotta love this movie though!

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Stodgy, staged, tableaux, but it's everyone's childhood so naturally everyone LOVES it

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020

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Kitsch. I believe that's the category this now fits in. I saw it when it came out - very impressive in VistaVision and dye transfer prints. I saw the reissue in 1960 and only remember that about fifteen minutes in I suddenly found myself laughing uncontrollably because I thought I was seeing a comedy. The film gets even stodgier with age. Mr. De Mille was an okay director in the sound era, but way past his prime at the time of this film. The over-seriousness is humorous, some of the performances are very good, but the dialogue is a challenge for everyone. Still, when intermission hits at two hours and fifteen minutes, you're so taken in by the hokum that you have to watch the rest.

The good news is that the transfer is excellent, as is the eye-popping color. Now, with over 7,500 reviews, I think we can count on the finger of one finger how many will actually see this review.

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Andrei s

Going the extra 'Mille

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2017

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Whenever someone may say "They don't make 'em like that anymore", there may be no better example than the best part of 4 hours of Cecil B.Demille's truly epic film of Moses and his life & tribulations, from 1956.
Not being a theologian and finding my spirit willing but my flesh weak ,I shall keep this review brief . The Film,on 2 discs has a lengthy opening introduction by Demille (that you may feel is a bit of a warning regarding 'The evils of Communism') and contains stirring Overture, entracte and exit music (by Elmer Bernstein). The sets ,design, image framing and the Technicolor-Vistavision print are outstanding in clarity,depth and colour range.The acting is certainly....theatrical & may have a rather 'camp' quality for some,used to a style of 'realism' based acting- even in the most far fetched of stories.
I found the first 'half' to be the strongest ,this is before the story requires its various special effects ,which range from the rather unconvincing to the still spectacular. The 2001 edition only extras are 3 lengthy trailers(from '56,'66 & '89).The English version is in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, while the French ,German ,Italian and Spanish language versions are in Mono, there are subtitles in 19 languages.
The picture ratio is '1.78:1 anamorphic' widescreen. Film '222 mins approx'- region 2 .The 2004 'special edition' has a '6 part documentary'- In 2005 a 3 disc edition was released that included DeMilles' original 1923 version ,with hand tinted Red Sea & Exodus sequences & includes documentaries & commentaries to both films.) The 2disc DVD edition from 2013 is the same as I've reviewed but with a different cover image(& usually more expensive!). The bluray edition from 2013 contains a commentary.

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Mr. R. D. M. Kirby

Probably the most spectacular film, ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2018

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Long before CGI was invented, when a film producer said that there was ‘a cast of thousands’, that was what the film-goer got.
Goodness knows how much Cecil B. DeMille’s remake of his silent film (some 30 years previously) cost but I’m willing to bet he got his capital outlay back, in double-quick time.
With the possible exception of Yul Brynner (a bit wooden), the cast is excellent: Charlton Heston as Moses is impressive, Anne Baxter is a terrific, scheming princess, out for what she wants, i.e. Moses, and Edward G. Robinson is suitably slimy as the Hebrew overseer (‘Chief Hebrew overseer’, as he fawningly corrects Yul Brynner).
But leaving aside the casting, the sets and the spectacle are everything, all given a sense of urgency by Elmer Bernstein’s stirring score. The old grease woman, about to be crushed between the moving stones in Sethi’s treasure city, the ‘ping!’ of the ropes as the giant obelisk (or is it a pylon?) is lowered into place and the parting of the Red Sea with the subsequent chase by Pharaoh’s chariots are made all the more compelling by that tremendous music, plus first-rate direction.
This has got to be one of the most spectacular – if not the most – films of the 20th Century.

9 people found this helpful

Mervyn Capel

Spectacle Over Drama

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2021

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I was taken to see this at a cinema when I was about seven years old! How a child that young sat through nearly 4 hours I can't imagine.
I don't remember much about the film before the actual Exodus and the spectacular events beyond, but the souvenir programme we bought at the cinema I still have, and the artwork in it formed my visual concept of the Story of Moses.
Watching the film again after 60+ years, I have to say simply that it's of its time.
De Mille's zeal in remaking his old silent movie is beyond question, and the detailed historical research his team made is evident in every frame, but much of the acting style and picture composition in the "human drama" first half (largely invented for the film) harks back to the days of silent movies.
In the second, "miraculous", half the effects are stunning but look dated, at times even cartoonish.
Much of the acting is low-key and so not particularly involving. Yul Brynner glowers his way through his scenes......when did he ever do anything else?.....and Charlton Heston, though sincere, is frankly rather dull as Moses. There are memorable character sketches from veteran Hollywood 'names' like Cedric Hardwicke and Edward G Robinson. The women, led by Anne Baxter, all look very similar and have little personality.
John Dexter looks macho and striking as Joshua, but unlike the heavily bearded Modes he does not age 40 years at the end. He also miraculously acquires armour the minute the Exodus begins.....where from? It isn't Egyptian armour, so he hasn't looted it.
Which brings me to my biggest beef about this film: the sacrifice of realistic drama in favour of Spectacle.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than the Exodus.
For most of the film, the Hebrews languish in slavery in Egypt. Wearing little but rags, they are wretched, oppressed and malnourished. Then suddenly, at a blast of Joshua's shofar, they acquire colourful clothing, cattle, geese, oxen, camels and wagons! How?
No, this film was made at a time when unquestioning belief in the Bible was far more widespread in the Christian world. It is irrevocably dated now, impressive but only as a museum piece.
Strange, because at the time all the movie executives thought Moses was great in the rushes!

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Brian Bathie

Wonderful 4K transfer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2021

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It’s hard to believe that this marvellous film originates from 1956 as the 4K transfer is simply amazing. There is very little grain and the colours are really vibrant due to HDR. The film has been reviewed many time before and there is little I can add. except to confirm it’s quite spectacular. Of course it’s a little dated at times , it’s 65 years old and I suspect none of the main actors are no longer with us. I hope Ben Hur will have a similar release. Highly recommended.

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Mr. George Johnson

Superb film, a little camp in places but a great way to pass an afternoon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2018

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A classic of cinema. The glorious presentation with classic intermission half way through, the glorious rich colour and stunning acting. Like many I have no interest in religion but I do love the Bible stories I grew up with in school. For me the stand out role was Yule Brinner's portrayal of the pharoah, especially the scene where he has to confront the truth that his young son is dead and he begins to quesiton his own faith in his own gods, all the while his wife is mocking him, just two superb actors playing roles to perfecyion. I like the overall story I find Heston to be competent but he seems to have been cast simply as "beefcake eye-candy" during Moses' earlier life, ripped shirt and bronzed complexion. Later in the film with the white beard and hair he simply looks a little too "local church production" for my liking, you half expect his beard to have those little wire hooks holding it on!

A great film to pass a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, get some snacks in and just while away a few hours enjoying a classic piece of overdone American cinema, classic!

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