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SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
With
its widescreen vistas and stirring soundtrack The Ten Commandments is a
full on biblical epic with Heston in Magisterial mode. Made in 1956 and
running almost four hours the movie surprisingly garnered only 2 academy
award nominations, one for best picture and one for the cinematography
of Loyal Griggs.
A
bit long winded and sometimes seeming little more than the Bible in
pictures The Ten Commandments is still a classic piece of
Hollywood
. De Mille had made a
version in 1923 in the silent era and obviously had an affinity for the
material.
Now
almost 50 years old the Ten Commandments is here presented in its full
edition (over two discs), complete with the rarely seen onscreen
introduction by CB himself. Yul Brynner pretty much steals the show as
Pharoah Rameses but Heston does turn in one of his best performances
here; Also worthy of mention is Edward G. Robinson as Dathan and Yvonne
De Carlo as Septora.
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