DeMille did not settle for what is told in the bible, but looked for various sources of information in order to tell a more complete and in depth story of the man who spoke to God and rescued the slaves from the great Egyptian empire. It was also a remake of his greatest triumph from the silent era. This was the last film from a director who started making movies back in 1914. DeMille’s epic rendering of the story of Moses, “The Ten Commandments”, is that film. What can be said about a movie that one can watch during childhood with wonder and continue to watch time and time again, reviving that same childhood wonder on each subsequent viewing? Cecile B.
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