The Ten Commandments - Anniversary Collection Director: Cecil B. DeMille Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brenner
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- DVD Release Date: 03/21/2006
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Features
The Ten Commandments - the 1956 Version Audio commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in Stone - Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic, The Ten Commandments; six documentaries about the film's production, including "Moses," "The Chosen People," "The Land of the Pharaohs," "The Paramount Lot," "The Score," and "Mr. DeMille";· newsreel footage from the film's New York premiere; the 1956 "Making of" trailer and the 1966 and 1989 theatrical trailers; widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions; Dolby Digital English 5.1; English Dolby Surround and French Mono; sub-titled in English and closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired The Ten Commandments - the 1923 Version Audio commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in Stone - Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic, The Ten Commandments; hand-tinted footage of the Exodus and Parting of the Red Sea footage.
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Disc #1 --The Ten Commandments: Anniversary Collection : 1956 Feature Film
1. Overture [1:39]
2. Prologue [2:24]
3. Main Title [5:36]
4. Rameses the First [1:56]
5. Drifting Basket [1:15]
6. Prince of Egypt [4:10]
7. Moses the Conqueror [1:26]
8. Throne Princess [1:48]
9. Goshen [5:00]
10. The Keystone [:32]
11. Temple Granaries [1:32]
12. Hounds and Jackals [3:20]
13. Treasure City [1:44]
14. Hebrew Cloth [3:44]
15. The Binding Tie [2:00]
16. Brick Pits [1:12]
17. Royal Barge [4:13]
18. Master Butcher [2:47]
19. Pharaoh's Justice [2:53]
20. Dathan's Bribe [3:09]
21. Robe and Staff [6:52]
22. The Wilderness of Shur [:08]
23. Well of Midian [7:25]
24. Mountian Of God [:25]
25. Jethro's Daughters [6:41]
26. Moses Chooses Sephora [1:14]
27. Sethi's Death [3:16]
28. A Man Among the Sheep [2:33]
29. Burning Bush [6:13]
Disc #2 -- The Ten Commandments: Anniversary Collection: 1956 Version Special Features
1. Entr'Acte [2:16]
2. Return Into Egypt [5:14]
3. Bricks With Straw [1:47]
4. Bound To A Shepherd Girl [:15]
5. Plagues On Egypt [4:26]
6. Death To the Firstborn [2:07]
7. Lamb's Blood [5:20]
8. Passover [1:50]
9. Set Free [5:22]
10. Exodus [1:39]
11. Hardened Heart [:39]
12. Pharaoh's Chariots [3:37]
13. Parting of the Red Sea [4:44]
14. Mount Sinai [2:18]
15. Finger of God [1:29]
16. Idolaters [5:32]
17. The Lord's Side [5:28]
18. Go Proclaim Liberty [1:30]
19. Exit Music [1:14]
Disc #3 -- The Ten Commandments: Anniversary Collection: 1923 Silent Film
1. Main Titles & Prologue [8:13]
2. Moses, the Great Lawgiver [1:44]
3. A Great Cry in Egypt [3:06]
4. Exodus [3:53]
5. Parting of the Red Sea [2:40]
6. Mount Sinai [6:25]
7. Two Brothers [3:33]
8. Mary Leigh [6:51]
9. Orange Blossoms [2:48]
10. Three Years Later [9:59]
11. The New Church [:52]
12. Rotten Concrete [5:22]
13. Sally Lung [7:22]
14. A Broken Man [2:40]
15. In God's Light [9:14]
Editorial Reviews
Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of plagues upon Egypt does Rameses relent and permit the Exodus to take place--only to go back on his word a few moments later. The scenes of thousands of Hebrews trekking across the desert, the parting of the Red Sea (an effect accomplished in part by splitting a bowl of gelatin down the middle) and the pre-Commandments revelries before the Golden Calf--complete with a fetchingly undressed Estelle Taylor as Miriam--are produced on a spectacular scale...but this is only the beginning. Just as Moses is invoking the Wrath of God upon the ungrateful Hebrews, the film dissolves to the present day (1923, that is). We are introduced to the MacTavish Family: pious, Bible-thumping Martha McTavish (Edythe Chapman) and her sons, straight-arrow John (Richard Dix) and hedonistic Dan (Rod LaRocque). Both sons love Mary Leigh (Leatrice Joy), but the roguish Dan wins out. While John continues honoring the Ten Commandments, Dan breaks as many as he can get his hands on, especially after falling under the spell of Eurasian adventuress Sally Lung (Nita Naldi). Before the uplifting climax, wherein John and Mary finally get together with (it is implied) the blessings of Heaven, we are treated to a series of disastrous plot turns, including the death of mother McTavish in a collapsing church, Sally Lung's revelation that she has leprosy, and a wild speedboat chase. All that's missing is the kitchen sink. Partially filmed in Technicolor at a then-astronomical cost of $1.2 million (a sum that caused a decade-long rift between Cecil B. DeMille and Paramount Pictures), The Ten Commandments grossed several times that amount. DeMille would remake the story in 1956, dispensing with the modern story to concentrate on the life of Moses. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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