The Ten Commandments (1956) movie poster

The Ten Commandments (1956)

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👍 84%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 84%
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Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Runtime
3h 40m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.8/10 (1,802 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
84%

Cast

Charlton Heston as Moses · 78% avg
Yul Brynner as Rameses · 81% avg
Anne Baxter as Nefretiri · 82% avg
Edward G. Robinson as Dathan · 83% avg
Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora
Debra Paget as Lilia
John Derek as Joshua
Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi · 81% avg

Is The Ten Commandments good?

Most people think so. 84% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 84%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#756 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#3 / 10 · 1956
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Movies Over 3 Hours (#29)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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Sphinx from 90-year-old movie set unearthed in California - Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of an Egyptian movie set built more than 90 years ago for Cecil B. DeMille’s epic “The Ten Commandments.”
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