G | 3 h 40 min | Drama | Historical

IMDB 7.9 / 10 (72,908 votes)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments | United States of America

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

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Description

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

Writers

Jesse Lasky Jr.
Æneas MacKenzie
Jack Gariss
Fredric M. Frank

Stars

Charlton Heston
Moses

Yul Brynner
Rameses

Anne Baxter
Nefretiri

Edward G. Robinson
Dathan

Yvonne De Carlo
Sephora

Debra Paget
Lilia

John Derek
Joshua

Cedric Hardwicke
Sethi

Nina Foch
Bithiah

Martha Scott
Yochabel

Others...

Budget

13,000,000.00

Revenue

122,700,000.00

Links

Keywords

egypt, moses, bible, ancient egypt, slavery, religion, israel, miracle, epic, pharaoh, ten commandments, technicolor, judaism, old testament, passover

Production

Paramount, Motion Picture Associates

Actor

Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Olive Deering, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank De Kova, Henry Wilcoxon, Eduard Franz, Donald Curtis, Lawrence Dobkin, H.B. Warner, Julia Faye, Lisa Mitchell, Noelle Williams, Joanna Merlin, Pat Richard, Joyce van der Veen, Diane Hall, Abbas El Boughdadly, Fraser Clarke Heston, John Miljan, Francis McDonald, Ian Keith, Paul De Rolf, Woody Strode, Tommy Duran, Eugene Mazzola, Ramsay Hill, Joan Woodbury, Esther Brown, Rushdy Abaza, Dorothy Adams, Eric Alden, E.J. André, Babette Bain, Baynes Barron, Kay Bell, Mary Benoit, Henry Brandon, Robert Carson, Bobby Clark, Rus Conklin, Mike Connors, Henry Corden, Edna Mae Cooper, Kem Dibbs, Maude Fealy, Mimi Gibson, Gavin Gordon, Diane Gump, Nancy Hale, June Jocelyn, Richard Kean, Gail Kobe, Fred Kohler Jr., Kenneth MacDonald, Peter Mamakos, Irene Martin, George Melford, John Merton, Amena Mohamed, Paula Morgan, Dorothy Neumann, John Parrish, Rodd Redwing, Addison Richards, Keith Richards, Hal Sherman, Marcoreta Starr, Onslow Stevens, Clint Walker, Amanda Webb, Frank Wilcox, Jeane Wood, Luis Alberni, Lillian Albertson, Barbara Aler, Michael Ansara, William Bagdad, Lesley-Marie Colburn, Fairy Cunningham, Kay Hammond, Mary Ellen Kay, Robert Vaughn, Alan Wells, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Farnsworth

Creators

Michael D. Moore (Assistant Director), Edith Head (Costume Design), Hal Pereira (Art Direction), Elmer Bernstein (Music), Sam Comer (Set Decoration), Ray Moyer (Set Decoration), Wally Westmore (Makeup Supervisor), Harry Lindgren (Sound Recordist), Cecil B. DeMille (Director), Gene Garvin (Sound Recordist), Walter H. Tyler (Art Direction), Loyal Griggs (Director of Photography), Jesse Lasky Jr. (Screenplay), Dorothy Jeakins (Costume Design), Arthur Rosson (Assistant Director), John F. Warren (Additional Photography), Nellie Manley (Hairstylist), Daniel McCauley (Assistant Director), J.H. Ingraham (Novel), A.E. Southon (Novel), Dorothy Clarke Wilson (Novel), Æneas MacKenzie (Screenplay), Jack Gariss (Screenplay), Henry Wilcoxon (Associate Producer), Anne Bauchens (Editor), Albert Nozaki (Art Direction), John P. Fulton (Special Effects), C. Kenneth Deland (Production Manager), Fredric M. Frank (Screenplay), J. Peverell Marley (Additional Photography), W. Wallace Kelley (Additional Photography), Francisco Day (Assistant Director), Frank Caffey (Production Manager), Loren Janes (Stunts), LeRoy Prinz (Choreographer), Farciot Edouart (Special Effects), Ruth Godfrey (Choreographer), Robert Goodstein (Property Master), Frank Westmore (Makeup Artist), Louis Mesenkop (Recording Supervision), Frank McCoy (Makeup Artist), Edward Salven (Assistant Director), Paul K. Lerpae (Special Effects), Richard Mueller (Other), William C. Hayes (Thanks), Labib Habachi (Thanks), Keith C. Seele (Thanks), Ralph Marcus (Thanks), George R. Hughes (Thanks), Rudolph Lupo (Thanks), Jerry Cook (Construction Coordinator), Gordon Cole (Property Master), Frances Dawson (Other), Donald MacLean (Other), Ralph Jester (Costume Design), John Jensen (Costume Design), Arnold Friberg (Costume Design), Henry Noerdlinger (Researcher), Gladys Percey (Researcher), Fouad Aref (Assistant Director), Donald Robb (Production Manager), Albert Simpson (Matte Painter), Norbert Haring (Grip), Albert Scheving (Assistant Camera), Bud Bashaw Jr. (Makeup Artist), Murray Young (Key Grip), Doris Turner (Production Secretary), Loren L. Ryder (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Helen Lierly (Hairstylist), George Dutton (Sound Effects Designer), Vera Tomei (Hairstylist), Glen E. Richardson (Still Photographer)

Alternative titles

De Tien Geboden (NL)
Los diez mandamientos (MX)
Los diez mandamientos (ES)
Os Dez Mandamentos - 1956 (BR)
De tio budorden (SE)
Os Dez Mandamentos (PT)
Les 10 Commandements (FR)

Release dates

17.02.1958 (DE)
29.06.1957 (IT)
10.10.2014 (IL)
17.12.1957 (AR)
15.03.1958 (JP)
23.12.1972 (JP)
08.11.1962 (MX)
29.06.1959 (ZA)
18.11.1957 (GB)
17.07.1972 (GB)
23.11.1973 (AU)
12.12.1958 (AU)
01.11.1964 (TR)
19.02.1977 (TR)
04.04.1958 (BE)
21.11.1957 (PE)
03.01.1958 (GR)
21.12.1959 (ES)
26.03.2015 (ES)
26.09.1958 (AT)
10.04.1958 (HK)
06.10.1959 (DK)
26.12.1961 (DK)
16.06.1973 (KR)
28.07.1982 (KR)
22.08.1958 (FI)
14.04.1972 (FI)
21.03.2006 (CA)
29.03.2011 (PH)
01.02.2013 (AE)
01.04.2001 (CZ)
04.01.1957 (BR)
05.10.1956 (US)
02.04.1966 (US)
01.10.1958 (PT)
04.04.1958 (IE)
19.06.1958 (NL)
07.12.1967 (NL)
30.09.2016 (NL)
18.04.2012 (NL)
16.01.2001 (NL)
29.12.2001 (NL)
17.01.1958 (FR)
16.08.1967 (FR)
15.10.2017 (FR)
06.04.1999 (FR)
04.04.2012 (FR)
01.04.2021 (FR)
26.11.1960 (SE)
29.03.2011 (SG)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

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