The ten commandments
DVD - 2017
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt, Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Religious films
Epic films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Hollywood, Calif. :
Paramount DVD
2017, 2006, c1956.
- Language
- English
French - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Widescreen
- Item Description
- Some credits from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
"Enhanced for 16:9 TVs"--Container.
Special features: commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in stone: making Cecil B. DeMille's epic, The ten commandments; newsreel: The ten commandments premiere in New York; theatrical trailers. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (231 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
- Audience
- MPAA rating: G.
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Special Effects; Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Costume Design (Color), Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Recording.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Loyal Griggs ; editing, Anne Bauchens ; music, Elmer Bernstein.
- disc 1: 1956 feature (pt. 1)
- disc 2: 1956 feature pt. 2) ; special features.