Moses follows Bithiah to Yochabel's house where he meets his biological mother, brother Aaron, and sister Miriam. She kills Memnet but reveals the story to Moses after he finds the piece of Levite cloth he was wrapped in as a baby, which Memnet had kept. Nefretiri learns from Memnet that Moses is the son of Hebrew slaves. Moses says he is making his workers more productive, making Rameses wonder if Moses is the man the Hebrews are calling the Deliverer. Moses reforms the treatment of slaves on the project, but Prince Rameses, Moses's adoptive brother and Seti's son, charges him with planning an insurrection. Moses saves an elderly woman from being crushed not knowing that she is his biological mother, Yochabel, and he reprimands the taskmaster and overseer Baka. While working on the building of a city for Pharaoh Seti I's jubilee, Moses meets the stonecutter Joshua, who tells him of the Hebrew God. Moses and Nefretiri fall in love, but she must marry the next Pharaoh to preserve the royal line. Prince Moses grows up to become a successful general, winning a war with Ethiopia and establishing an alliance. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses' recently widowed daughter (and sister of the future Pharaoh Seti I), finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Network television has aired the film in prime time during the Passover/Easter season every year since 1973.ДЄfter hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. The film was listed as the tenth best film in the epic genre. In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its ' Ten Top Ten'-the best ten films in ten American film genres-after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. According to Guinness World Records, in terms of theatrical exhibition it is the eighth most successful film of all-time when the box office gross is adjusted for inflation.

It is also one of the most financially successful films ever made, grossing approximately $122.7 million (equivalent to $1.17В billion in 2020) at the box office during its initial release it was the most successful film of 1956 and the second-highest-grossing film of the decade. Heston, Anne Baxter, and Yvonne De Carlo won Laurel Awards for Best Dramatic Actor, 5th Best Dramatic Actress, and 3rd Best Supporting Actress, respectively. Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for this film as well as Anastasia and The King and I. Charlton Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama). DeMille won the Foreign Language Press Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. In 1957, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ( John P. The original roadshow version included an onscreen introduction by DeMille and was released to cinemas in the United States on November 8, 1956, and, at the time of its release, was the most expensive film ever made.

The interior sets were constructed on Paramount's Hollywood soundstages. Four screenwriters, three art directors, and five costume designers worked on the film. It is a remake of the prologue of his 1923 silent film of the same title, and features one of the largest exterior sets ever created for a motion picture. ДЇilmed on location in Egypt, Mount Sinai and the Sinai Peninsula, The Ten Commandments was DeMille's most successful work, his first widescreen film, his fourth biblical production, and his final directorial effort before his death in 1959. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Southon, and the Book of Exodus, The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. Ingraham, the 1937 novel On Eagle's Wings by A.

Based on the 1949 novel Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, the 1859 novel Pillar of Fire by J. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B.

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