The ten commandments / Paramount presents a Cecil B. DeMille production ; written for the screen by Aeneas MacKenzie ... [et al.] ; produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
DVD release of the 1956 motion picture. Region 1; Dolby digital; anamorphic widescreen format. Special features include: audio commentary track 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.
Contents:
Special features: Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs -- Commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in stone--making Cecil B. deMille's epic The Ten Commandments -- Newsreel: The Ten Commandments premier in New York -- 6-part documentary -- Trailers: 1956 "Making of" trailer ; 1966 trailer ; 1989 trailer -- Language: English 5.1 surround ; English Dolby surround ; French mono -- Subtitles: English.
Summary:
Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses from the time he was discovered in the bulrushes as an infant by the pharaoh's daughter. As an adult, he turns his back on his privileged life in Egypt to lead his true people, the Hebrews, to freedom outside Egypt.
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