B000WS4S6C

796019809443

1956

1956-10-05

220

3h 40min

Won 1 Oscar, 12 wins & 12 nominations total

Cecil B. DeMille

Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter

Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon

Elmer Bernstein

Loyal Griggs

Anne Bauchens

Bert McKay

Albert Nozaki, Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler

Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Nellie Manley, Frank McCoy, Frank Westmore, Wally Westmore, Hamdi Al Abdel, Peggy Adams, Abdel Hakeem Ahmed, Hamdy Ahmed, Shousha Ahmed, Zakeria Ahmed, Erfan Aly, John A. Anderson, Sayed Awad, Bud Bashaw Jr., Larry Butterworth, Willard Colee, Olga Collings, Robert Dawn, Armand Delmar, Frank Delmar, Doris Durkus, Mahmoud El Sayed, Max Factor, Ibraham Abdel Fattel, Mohamed Fouad, Bertha French, Charles Gemora, Jane Gorton, Florence Guernsey, Faye Hanlin, Doris Harris, Ahmed Higazy, John G. Holden, Hussein Hussein al Sayed, Aly Iman, Issa Ahmed Issa, Alma Johnson, Dick Johnson, A.C. Karnagel, Sam Kaufman, Eugene Klum, Beth Langston, Lillian Lashin, Helen Lierly, Ray Lopez, Mohamed Magdy, Youssef Mahmed, Paul Malcolm, Mohamed Mamdough, Wanda McGee, Mahmoud Metwally, Terry Miles, Sayed Mohamad, Fouad Ramadan Mohamed, Abdel Moneim Moussa, Sayed Ahmed Moustafa, Dick Narr, Helene Parrish, Sidney Perell, Louis Phillipi, Norman Pringle, Hamdi Rafaat, Sobhy Rasta, Leonora Sabine, Eric Seelig, Fae M. Smith, Abdel Hameed Soliman, Lavaughn Speer, Jack Stone, Hassan Taha, Harry Thomas, Hazel R. Thompson, Vera Tomei, Lenore Weaver

Frank Caffey, C. Kenneth Deland, Don Robb, Hugh Brown, William Davidson, Andrew J. Durkus

Fouad Aref, Francisco Day, Daniel McCauley, Michael D. Moore, Arthur Rosson, Edward Salven, Fawzy Aly, Bud Brill, Richard Caffey, Loutfy Nour El Din, Fouad Salah El Dine, Ibrahim El Gamal, Farid El Guindi, Raouf El Sabaa, Raouf El Shafic, Ahmed El Touki, Gamel Faris, Saleh Fawzy, Sherif Mustafa Hammouda, Al Mann, Amena Mohamed, Abdel Salam Moussa, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Fikry Ramzy, Simon Saleh, L. Jeffrey Selznick, Mahmoud Serry

Gordon Cole, Jerry Cook, Robert Goodstein, Moustafa Abdallah, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Abdel Badie Ahmed, Abdel Hameed Ahmed, Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed, Mahmoud Aly, Hosny Hamza Aman, Harry Arnold, Said Ahmed Atta, Abdel Aty Atwa, Abdallah Awad, Sobhi Awad, Ibrahim Abdel Aziz, Wayne Buttress, A.J. Ciraolo, Nicholas Damaskos, Eddie Dengyan, Sayed Abdel El Adl, Ibrahim Aly El Gamal, Ahmed El Guinengy, Abdou El Haron, Salama Gouda El Shaerb, Abass El Sheikh, Hamid El Sissy, Metawee Eweiss, Arnold Friberg, Ahmed Gad, George Georgakis, Abdel Azim Ghareem, Les Hallett, Abd el Moheim Hassan, Mohamed Hassan, Saad Helbawy, Reggie Hockman, John Hohl, Dorothea Holt, Hassan Hussein, Ramadan Hussein, Julio Ielo, Mohamed Ismail, John Jensen, Hussein Khalil, Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil, Abdel Ghaia Khattab, Aly Nour Khattab, Hameen Raslan Khattab, Hassan Mabruk Khattab, Imam Egab Khattab, Mahmoud Hassan Khattab, Berdj Khoubesserian, Naguib Khoury, Mohamed Zakaria Korseim, Ashour Lamloum, Kamel Lamloum, Sayed Abdel Latif, Gene Lauritzen, Abd el Mabrouk, Sayed Mabrouk, Abdel Hamid Aly Mahfaz, Moustafa Mahmoud, William B. Major, Naguib Malak, Ramadan Mamoud, Abdo Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud, Frank McCarthy, James F. McGuire, Abd el Maguid Metwally, Harold Michelson, Abdel aal Mohamed, Abdel Hameed Mohamed, Esmat Mohamed, Khalifa Mohamed, Sayed Younes Moursy, Said Mohamed Moustafa, Toson Mutamad, Abdel Hakeem Hassan Nasr, Sayed Mohamed Nassar, Ahmed Fouad Nesseim, Hassan Nour, Osman Nour, Earl Olin, Richard Parker, Martin Pendleton, Constanteau Pitsis, Ahmed Abdou Radwan, Ramadan Abdel Radwan, Abdel Moneim Abdel Rahman, Roy Rulin, Henri Salvi, William Sapp, Jack Senter, Bob Sheldon, Moustafa Ali Sherif, Nassif Solimon, Mohamed Hamed Abou Steat, George Swartz, Dwight Thompson, Fadlallah Toulba, Abdel Gawad Yehia, Moise Yenni

Gene Garvin, Harry Lindgren, Louis Mesenkop, Galal Amin, A.H. Barnett, Howard Beals, George Dutton, Cecil Gardiner, Charles Grenzbach, Hugo Grenzbach, Don Johnson, Al Meinlschmid, Gene Merritt, Thomas B. Middleton, Tommy Middleton, Harry D. Mills, Pat Moore, Rocky Nelson, Lovell Norman, Loren L. Ryder, Clarence E. Self, George Swarthout, Ossama Wally, Bill Wistrom

Tim Baar, Harry Barndollar, Romaine Birkmeyer, Ivyl Burks, Charles Davies, Doug Hubbard, Joshua Meador, Milton Olsen, Chester Pate, William Sapp, Bob Springfield, Lee Vasque, Barney Wolff

Farciot Edouart, John P. Fulton, Paul K. Lerpae, Carole Beers, Ray Binger, Jan Domela, Edward Faigin, Marion Green, Gladys Hallberg, T. Hardy, David S. Horsley, Angel Jimenez, Roberta Johnson, Marlene Kempffer, Helen Lampson, Ann Lord, Bill Mahood, Ed Parks, Pauline Rosenthal, George Rowley, Albert Simpson

Haguib Asfar, Rahwia Badawi, Kay Bell, Polly Burson, Joyce Cochtie, J. Collins, Claude Colvin, Ken Cooper, Rita Coudisi, Roger Creed, Monica Dameanie, Sayed El Badawi, Henry A. Escalante, Adele Essa, Richard Farnsworth, Lila Finn, Bob Folkerson, Robert Garvey, Bernie Gozier, Chuck Hamilton, Tom Hennesy, Bob Herron, Abdel Kadar Hussein, Loren Janes, Hubie Kerns, Catherine Mikhail, Bob Morgan, Boyd Red Morgan, Hanafy Mohamed Moustafa, Claude Moyal, Victor Paul, Preston Peterson, George Robotham, Moh Sabe, Carl Saxe, Roudy Soufran, Ken Terrell, Marvin Willens, Fred Zendar

W. Wallace Kelley, J. Peverell Marley, John F. Warren, Sayed Ahmed, Alfred Alexander, Ara O. Avedissian, Alfred Baalas, Erik Balzer, M.A. Boyce, Adolph Bricker, Fritz Brosch, Mal Bulloch, Elvin E. Christie, Alfred Cline, Phil Eastman, Mohamed Ezz El Arab, Kamel El Araby, Gamel El Ashry, Ismail Ismail El Kholy, Awad Mohamed Abou El Naza, Mahmoud Eracky, Manoli Eskender, Rudolph Frank, George Gall, Sayed Mahmoud Gindy, Soldier Graham, Norbert Haring, Jack Harris, Cliff Hartley, Paul Hill, Sayed Hindawy, Bernard P. Keever, Abou Abdel Khalek, Abdel Fattah Khattab, Farag Tewfik Khattab, Mohamed Nagy Khattab, Mohamed Sayed Khattab, James V. King, John Leeds, Thomas Morris, Gordon Palmer, Otto Pierce, Awad Abdel Rahman, Khomis Abdel Rahman, Sayed Abd El Rahman, Mohamed Abdel Razek, Glen E. Richardson, Rich Richardson, Bob Rogers, Farag Riad Sayed, Albert Scheving, Dominic Seminerio, Kamel Shaker, Ali Mahmoud Soliman, Mohamed Soliman, Bill Thomas, Robert Tobey, Fares Ahmed Abdel Wahad, Edward Wahrman, Paul Weddell, Ken Whitmore, Max Wolk, Abdel Salem Yehia, Murray Young

Sayed Aly, Johan Cope, Mohamed Hassan, Olive Long, Ibrahim Mostafa, Hassan Taher, Mohamed Zayed

Arnold Friberg, Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen, Ralph Jester, Mohamed Abdelaziz, John Mohamed Ahmed, Abdel Wahab Aly, Kamel Mohamed Aly, John A. Anderson, O. Arassky, Abdel Malik Attalah, Mary Avierino, Moustafa Abdel Aziz, Gomad Omran Badowy, Adele Balkan, Sayed Abdel Bashaudy, Beba Benvenista, Marcella Bertini, Steve Brandt, Frank R. Budz, Billie Cheatwood, Ismail Chinnawy, Staveo Christofidas, Frank Delmar, Imam Abdel Wahed El Sharaby, Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohamed Ezzat, Makram Fahmy, Lee Forman, Abdu Mabrak Garby, Gigi Gargiulio, Abdel Moheim Gilbrill, Vou Lee Giokaris, Youssef Hassan, Ahmed Helmi, Walt Hoffman, Joan Joseff, Fred Kroiter, Yvonne Madi, Kitty Manassi, Winifred Martin, Fouad Michael, Albert Mizrahi, Hussein Mohamed, Michel Moran, Michael F. Moussa, Ezzat Sayed Moustafa, Dario Piazza, Mounir Salama, Mohamed Mohamed Sayed Jr., Eric Seelig, Abdel Wahhab Shalaby, Ethel Shaw, R. Shepherd, Bondak Hassan Shetatu, Kalifa Soliman, Marilyn Sotto, Stella Spiro, Ruth Stella, Eleanor Szabo, John Thomas, George Tsontzos, Patrick Williams, Yanni Zafiro, Labiba Zaki, Lopy Zakika

Michael Caffey

Andre Castel, Ted Masters

Laurindo Almeida, Edward Baravalle, Elmer Bernstein, Larry Bunker, Lucien Cailliet, Peter P. Decek, Jack Dumont, Alexander DuVoir, Maynard Ferguson, Bert Gassman, Corky Hale, Earl Hatch, Jack Hayes, Wally Heglin, Frederick Herbert, Henry Hill, Samuel Hoffman, Milt Holland, Louis Kaufman, Charles Kisco, Rudolph G. Kopp, Erma E. Levin, Shelly Manne, M.J. McLaughlin, Lionel Newman, Eugene Ober, Sam Rice, Emil Richards, William Saracino, Leo Shuken, Jack Sperling, Fred Steiner, Urban Thielmann, Eric Tomlinson, Van Cleave

Claire Behnke, Leila Gilbertson

Abdel Salem Aly, George Attallah, Mohamed Moussa Chazly, Tahan El Haggan, Osman El Kashef, Mohamed El Khatib, Youssef A. Elramby, Hamid Abdul Fayed, Ahmed Fouad, Ahmed Abdel Hadi, Joe Herron, Aganeau Hassan Hussein, Ahmed Aly Mabred, M.J. McGee, Abdel Aziz Metwally, Ezzat Hashem Mohamed, Abdul el Hamid Morgan, Zaghloul Mouwad, Aly Naggy, Stelio Nicolaides, George Pangalos, Mohamed Saawan, Mahmoud Hassan Saleh, Saleh Hassan Saleh, Sayed Ahmed Saleh, Abdel Kader Salem, Georges Sideratos, George Strouthos, Ibrahim Mohamed Zatoney

Eusebius of Caesarea, Francis Dawson, Ruth Godfrey, Flavius Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Donald MacLean, Richard Mueller, Henry Noerdlinger, Gladys Percey, LeRoy Prinz, Mounir Aly Abdel Hamid, Moh. Abe El Salem, Abdel M.M. Ahmed, Ahmed Salah Ahmed, Ahmed Saleh Ahmed, Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed, Mohamed Abdel Alein, Ahmed Mahmoud Aly, Ahmed Mawhid Aly, Art Arthur, Giselle Benaroyo, Rufus Blair, Joan Brooskin, Marianna Buehrlen, Olga Celeste, Rena Clark, M. Jane Clifford, Claire Cochran, Florence Cole, Beatrice Dashiell, James Davies, Albert Deane, Ann Del Valle, Patricia DiLorenzo, Shater El Basset, Anis Serag El Dine, Kamel Ahmed El Sayed, Yolande Fahmy, Rafik Shawky Farag, Souraya Farid, Al Finestone, George Fraser, Arnold Friberg, Frank Friedrichsen, Labib Habachi, Jack Haddad, Maxwell Hamilton, William C. Hayes, Donald Hayne, Tewfik Helmy, Barbar Hicks, Elizabeth Higgason, Hassan Hilmy, George R. Hughes, Bill Hurley, Genghis Khalil Ibrahim, Nahed Kholousy, Patricia Kline, Koussa Tadros Koussa, Margaret B. Kunde, William Lasky, Rudolph Lupo, Edith W. Lynn, Donald MacLean, Abdel Sayed Mahmoud, Raafat Mahmoud, Hussein Makram, Faiza Abdel Maksoud, Ralph Marcus, Michael Marinos, Elaine Matta, M.J. McGee, Mary Moon, Bernice Mosk, Mahmoud Mohamed Moustafa, Nicola D. Papadapaulo, Kamel Said Said, John Samuels, Keith C. Seele, Paul Simqu, Doris Turner, James Moore Vail, Geri Zerbonne

Labib Habachi, William C. Hayes, George R. Hughes, Rudolph Lupo, Ralph Marcus, Keith C. Seele

Adventure, Drama, Family

Motion Picture Associates (II)

USA

English

G

7.9

71070

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the 1949 novel Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, the 1859 novel Pillar of Fire by J. H. Ingraham, the 1937 novel On Eagle s Wings by A. E. 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. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Seti I, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others.

Filmed 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. 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. Four screenwriters, three art directors, and five costume designers worked on the film. The interior sets were constructed on Paramount s Hollywood soundstages. 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.

In 1957, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (John P. Fulton, A.S.C.). DeMille won the Foreign Language Press Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. Charlton Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama). Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for this film, as well as for Anastasia and The King and I. Heston, Anne Baxter, and Yvonne De Carlo won Laurel Awards for Best Dramatic Actor, 5th Best Dramatic Actress, and 3rd Best Supporting Actress, respectively. It is also one of the most financially successful films ever made, grossing approximately $122.7 million 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. 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.

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 . 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. The film was listed as the tenth best film in the epic genre. Network television has aired the film in prime time during the Passover/Easter season every year since 1973.

$13,282,712 (estimated)

$65,500,000

$65,500,000

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