Cecil B. DeMille's The ten commandments

Cecil B. DeMille's The ten commandments [videorecording] / Ten commandments Paramount presents; A Cecille B. DeMille production; directed by Cecil B. DeMille; written for the screen by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss and Fredric M. Frank. - Special collector's ed. - Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount Pictures, c2004. - 2 videodiscs (222 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Widescreen format. Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Bonus features include: commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in Stone -- Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic; newsreel of the Ten Commandments premiere in New York City; 6-part documentary; 3 theatrical trailers.

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine.

This epic film tells the story of the life of Moses, once favored in the Pharaoh's household, who turns his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom.

MPAA rating: G.


DVD.


English and French language soundtracks; English subtitles. Closed-captioned.

0792199014

05028 Paramount Pictures


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