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Movie Credits The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, [5] shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and...
Playlist • 10 videos • 2,038,101 views. Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Cecil B. DeMille's silent masterpiece, "The Ten Commandments," premiered in 1923, marking a monumental achievement in American cinema. Directed and produced ...
The length of the film combined with the necessary advertisement breaks has caused its broadcast window to vary over the years; by 2023, ABC's total run time for The Ten Commandments stood at four hours and 44 minutes, just above one hour longer than its three-hour and 39-minute length.
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.
“Mr. De Mille presents in this three-hour-and-thirty-nine-minute film, which is by far the largest and most expensive that he has ever made, a moving story of the spirit of freedom rising in a man, under the divine inspiration of his Maker.
The Ten Commandments (1956) was Cecil B. DeMille's most spectacular and unequalled historical epic and also his last film (his 70th). The 3 hour, 40 minute film (divided into two parts with an intermission) was the highest-earning live-action film of the decade of the 1950s until Ben-Hur (1959) toppled it.
