The Ten Commandments

1956
US
3h 40min
U

Directed by: Cecil B DeMille
Written by: Joseph Holt Ingraham (novel Pillar of Fire), AE Southon (novel On Eagle's Wings), Dorothy Clarke Wilson (novel Prince of Egypt), Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse L Lasky, Jr, Jack Gariss, Fredric M Frank
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

The Big Biblical tale from one of Hollywood's craziest bastards. Self-righteous, pompous, overblown and overlong, there's nevertheless much to admire in DeMille's epic, not least the parting of the Red Sea sequence - truly something of a stunner, still.