- 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
- Distributor
- PAR
- Cast
- Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Richard Dix, Estelle Taylor
- Production notes
- Silent. Cecil B. DeMille’s precursor to his 1956 Ten Commandments was considered the Titanic of its time; the film boasted a $1.4 million budget, four times the typical film budget for the era. Discussed here is part one, the Moses and the Exodus story