In Goshen, where the new city is being built, Moses supervises Baka, the cold-hearted master builder. Nefretiri is in love with Moses, who shares her passion, even though Sethi has not announced whether Moses or Rameses will succeed him. At Rameses' urging, Sethi sends Moses to oversee the new city's construction, much to the chagrin of Nefretiri, the princess who must marry Sethi's heir. Sethi chides Rameses for not completing the treasure city for his upcoming jubilee, and Rameses blames his failure on the stubbornness of the Hebrew slaves. Rameses is deeply jealous of Moses, who has returned from Ethiopia after conquering it in Sethi's name. Thirty years later, Bithiah's brother Sethi is pharaoh, and Moses is much loved by the Egyptians, even more than Sethi's own son, Rameses II. Declaring that her son will be a prince of Egypt, Bithiah makes Memnet vow never to reveal his origins, although the servant secretly keeps the cloth. The recently widowed Bithiah believes that the baby was sent by her deceased husband and, naming him Moses, dismisses the concern of her servant Memnet, who warns her that the child's swaddling cloth was made by Levite Hebrews. Pushing the ark into the Nile, Yochabel instructs Miriam to follow it, and the girl watches as it is found by Bithiah, the pharaoh's daughter. Jewish slave Yochabel, along with her young daughter Miriam, prepares an ark of bulrushes and places her infant son in it. Wanting to subvert the deliverer, yet unwilling to kill all the Hebrew slaves, Rameses I theorizes that the deliverer must be newly born and so orders the death of every male, Hebrew infant.
, Producer Motion Pictures Associates, Inc.During the rule of Rameses I in Ancient Egypt, the pharaoh is informed that the Hebrew slaves believe that a recently seen star portends the arrival of a deliverer who will free them. , Composer Paramount Pictures Corporation. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959, Director, Producer MacKenzie, Aeneas. Academy Award for Best Special Effects Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Costume Design (Color), Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Recording. 1923 version has special features: commentary by Katherine Orrison hand-tinted footage of the Exodus and Parting of the Red Sea sequence.
1923 version: full screen format English with French subtitles recorded in Dolby digital stereo. DeMille's production story by Jeanie MacPherson directed by Cecil B. Includes the 1923 version of: The ten commandments / Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. DeMille" newsreel: The ten commandments premiere in New York trailers. DeMille's epic, The ten commandments 6-part documentary: "Moses", "The chosen people", "Land of the pharaohs", "The Paramount lot", "The score", and "Mr. Special features: commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of Written in stone : making Cecil B. Recorded in Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English), 2.0 surround (English), and mono (French). Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Credits: Director of photography, Loyal Griggs editing, Anne Bauchens music, Elmer Bernstein. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine. Participant: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. In Egypt, Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him.
When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses.
Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Summary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Language: English and dubbed French dialogue, English subtitles. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) - Drama.
Details Other Title: 10 commandments Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader) - Drama.