- Egyptians are the tyrants of the piece: a Pharaoh who orders Hebrew newborns killed, a master builder who would let an old woman be crushed rather than halt work, and Rameses, whose hard-hearted rule brings the plagues down on his own people; Egypt is defined by slavery and idolatry, its sympathetic figures only those who side with Moses.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
film
- Distributor
- PAR
- Cast
- Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
- Production notes
- P: Cecil B. DeMille. Three hours and thirty-nine minutes