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FILM DETAILS

Certificate U

Cast Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Anne Baxter Edward G Robinson

Directors Cecil B DeMille

Screenwriters AE Southon JH Ingraham

Running Time 220 minutes

The Ten Commandments
DeMille takes on the biggest story ever told as Heston officially ascends to God-status.

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Plot
Left in the bulrushes by his Hebrew mother, raised by the Pharaoh's sister and disliked by his stepbrother Rameses (Brynner), Moses (Heston) becomes a warrior and possible future Pharaoh. However, his worldview changes when he discovers his real origins. A time spent as a slave, the Burning Bush in the Wilderness, and a magic staff and he's a man with a heavy mission, ready to lead his people out of slavery and into the Promised Land.

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