The Ten Commandments (1923)

[jcowboyup1]

and if you supergod2011 or any of your "little friends" post a response to this...it'll only show how y immature you are too ...JACK!!

[jcowboyup1]

supergod2011 need to shut the hell up! If he doesnt have anything good to say about the bible or God.. then stop going into biblical places!

[whisperingtwowind]

In God we trust amen

[1933rk]

My great grandma was 17 when this was made and she's still alive

[supergod2011]

the hell wit these lies,

[goldenmoviepalace]

Unfortunately, the Two-strip Technicolor of this sequence is badly faded. However, George Eastman House fully restored this film in 2004, and the new print looks magnificent. They need to give the new restoration a Blu-ray release and an Alternate Orchestra score. The 2006 DVD release of the studio print was as an extra with the 50th Anniversary Edition of the 1956 remake.

[deipan]

2:51 the sea that is divided is actually just a close up jell-o shot!

genius!!

[CivilRoar]

When I'm old, I wanna look like Moses in this movie. He looks like the perfect marriage of wisdom and power.

[CivilRoar]

I would've liked to have seen this at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood where it was premiered. I bet it was electrifying. It is still easy to get caught up in the excitement.  Wonderful stuff!

[computername]

Ramses is Mr. Art Noveau! 

[Albacorewing]

There was a Huell Howser TV special about this film a few years ago. The original movie site can be seen near Atascadero, CA

[sallyrob101]

This version of "The Ten Commandments" uses the Exodus account of Moses and the children of Israel as a prologue to a modern morality story. Parts of it were filmed in an early version of two strip Technicolor; unfortunately, much of the original color has badly faded over the years.

[MrYaesuman]

nice i like the old silent films

[Bestmanme08]

There is a great bio discussing DeMille's Ten Commandments films. The bio is at amazon and it is Charlton Heston: An Incredible LIfe: Revised Edition!

[CloneTrooper10121994]

is it me, or did i saw pharaoh wearing make-up on his face.... he also looks like a clown

[fromthesidelines]

The original silent version of this movie focused on Moses and the Exodus from Egypt only during the first half; the second half was a modern-day parallel of the "back story": two brothers fighting over the same woman...

[kovalev27c]

very nice! to think a long time ago people thought this was insane!

[JFMJJ]

The actress at 2:01 is gorgeous.

[bithot2nite]

Firstly, if the woman were about 20, in 1923, it would make her about 106 years old, and probably dead (bless her). That's a bit sick, lol

Secondly.....the thing is, dammit, your right she is gorgeous, lolz ;-)

[JFMJJ]

lol! Guess I should have specified that she was gorgeous 86 years ago.

[bithot2nite]

No doubt she still is....only now she has wings and a harp now ;-)

[27marioSais]

I'm mad why are so many silents lost!

[murnavid]

nicely done

but as magnificent as the 1956 one.

[Numbers31colon17]

Two broken commandments by the jews off the top of my head would be "false witness" and "love your neighbor". Jews have been inventing slanderous persecution stories against other races for untold centuries such as "The Holocaust" and "The Exodus" both of which never happened in real life. Jews have been enslaving africans and other races for 3500 years and still believe it is their right to do so. The jewish scriptures are nothing but fairytales and slave manuals for future generations to use.

[michaelbudd]

Incredible that anyone still argues the existence of the Holocaust. The only benefit to the perpetuation of that opinion is that whenever you encounter it, it serves as a clear indicator that additional claims offered by the individual are likely misrepresented, misconstrued or patently untrue.

[JFMJJ]

The Old Testament (or Tanakh) is a highly mythologized account of the origins of the Jewish people. Fairytales? No. Slave manuals? No. Every ancient culture has had their myths, including "africans and other races."

[coydog0]

Try reading a book, or maybe watching some documentary footage, or listening to come first hand acoounts sometime.

You really think thousands of people tatooed numbers on their wrist, created fictional loved ones that are now dead, and corrobarated thousands of stories about what happened to them in the camps...just for kicks?

You don't need a history lesson, you need a common sense lesson.

[coydog0]

That message is for Numbers31colon17.

[babyycat]

DID you know they used a jello like stuff to make the parting of Red Sea???

[mistikalnitez]

I live in the town that this movie was filmed. When you drive out to the beach, you can see pieces of the massive set coming up from the sand. For many years, archeologists have been trying to unearth the set.

[bdhardwick]

Yes, but the parting of the Red Sea itself was shot in Sunset Beach, between Seal Beach and Huntington Beach in Southern California.

[Arnelldedios]

Exciting as the 1955 remake.

[Arnelldedios]

Exciting as the 1955 Remake.

[KidHum]

yeah fuck CGI!

[Chicano3000X]

depends man. Sometimes cg is a good thing. CG is so easy these days that people dont do a good job.

I have to defend it since I work with 3d animation :]

[JFMJJ]

If DeMille were alive today, he would no doubt use at least some CG.

[tsntana]

Re: "If DeMille were alive today, he would no doubt use at least some CG."

I think if DeMille were still around now, he would use his creativity. Surely the technologies in 1956 far surpassed anything in 1923. Yet he was STILL able to produce something amazing.

[ElijahtheTishbite]

You shall obey my Royal Law I wrote before my servant Moses!

God's Servant Elijah

[II2None59]

Considering when it was made, the effects are excellent. And you can see little hints of what DeMille will later use in his remake.

[Hadezul2]

Really nice!