- In the biblical prologue Egypt is simply the house of bondage: Pharaoh's Egypt enslaves the Israelites, and his charioteers pursue the fleeing slaves to the Red Sea; Egyptians figure as oppressors and nothing else.
The Ten Commandments (1923)
film · 1923 film by Cecil B. DeMille
- Director
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- Paramount Pictures, Netflix
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Genres
- drama film, silent film, sword-and-sandal film
- Cast
- Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Richard Dix, Estelle Taylor