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The Ten Commandments
(1956)
Editorial
Reviews
Amazon.com
Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the
way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of
that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The
Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has
an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and
Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the
presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both
sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with
worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also making the sexy action
around the cult of the Golden Calf look like fun. You have to see The Ten
Commandments to understand its peculiar resonance as an old-new movie,
complete with several still-impressive effects such as the parting of the Red
Sea. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to the VHS widescreen edition of
this video
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Mysteries of the Bible: Box Set 1
Mysteries of the Bible - Boxed Set
2: The Story Continues (1994)
Mysteries of the Bible - Box Set 3:
The Greatest Stories (1996)
Elie Wiesel's - Great Figures of
the Bible
Editorial
Reviews
From
The Studio
After a successful television debut, Great Figures of the Bible the
special series narrated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, author of more
than thirty books that have been translated into 18 different languages, has
been adapted into a six-part videotape series.
While Mr. Wiesel often appeared on television interviews and in news
reports covering events such as his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
at the White House to his humanitarian journey to Sarajevo, he had never before
been the host of a television/video.
Yale Roe, the producer of this series, designed the programs to open the
richness and the relevance of the great Rabbinic stories to both the Jewish and
non-Jewish viewer. Mr. Roe, a former ABC-TV network executive and now president
of Yale Roe Films, is the author of two books on the television industry and is
winner of numerous awards for his productions.
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Embracing Judaism: Reaching In,
Reaching Out, Reaching Up
