MOSES TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE MOVIE

MOSES TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE MOVIE

(To my recollection, curtains went the way of the dodo in the late-'80s, when they were deemed impractical by the new cookie-cutter multiplexes that would drive the traditional movie palace to extinction.) De Mille, then a name synonymous with 'director' to the American public, proceeds to all but invent William Castle as he introduces The Gimmick: What you are about to see will fill in all the gaps in the biblical account of Moses, thanks to an investigative technique seldom used in Hollywood known as research.

Back then, this would've had an uncanny effect on filmgoers, who were used to seeing curtains shield the silver screen from view until the lights went down. De Mille himself emerges from behind them and steps up to a microphone. De Mille's 1956 The Ten Commandments begins with a pair of ornate drapes. Frank, in accordance with the ancient texts of Philo, Josephus, Eusebius, the Midrash, and the Holy ScripturesД«y Bill Chambers A harbinger of the pageantry to come, Cecil B. Starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G Robinson Please note that all framegrabs are from the 1080p version

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