Baka the Egyptian slave master that Moses murders is legendary horror actor Vincent Price in one of his few notable non-horror roles. The man was a great actor and it’s always nice to see him in a big-budget production like this. He got typecast for horror films because of his creepy voice but he was actually a very warm and funny man who loved cooking and collecting art. He even published several cookbooks during his lifetime.
The word you're looking for is "overture". Theater works like operas and musicals play music before they start, while people are still taking their seats. Back in the day movies did the same.
I am 50 and have watched this film nearly every Easter of my entire life. Happy Easter and Blessed Passover. Thank-you, Cassie, for reacting to this and I wish you and your family a beautiful holiday.
@@drhkleinert8241 It really is a fitting movie for this time, not only remembering the first Passover, but also as we recognize that Jesus came to fulfill the promise of Passover for all those who believe in Him and receive God's gift of salvation. We like to watch The Ten Commandments, but then also Ben-Hur and the Jesus film (and sometimes, The Prince of Egypt, as well as The Robe, The Passion of the Christ, or another such film).
Few actors can command a scene the way Chuck Heston did. This movie and Ben Hur are personal favorites of mine, both are great examples of big-budget cinema in that time period that feels like going to the theather.
I'm not a religious person ... but I LOVE the old Bible Epic films from the 50s and 60s. When I was a kid, all the network TV stations would play these films all day long on Easter ... King of Kings, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Story Ever Told, etc.
@Raylan Givens I couldn't agree more. Franco Zeffirelli's _Jesus of Nazareth_ is phenomenal! If I'm not mistaken, they made it a point to never have Jesus blink while on camera. It's a very subtle but effective thing to do in order to give him this otherworldly aspect. *EDIT:* And like *Daniel* noted above, I am no longer really terribly religious, but I was raised on these films and still love them to this day.
Wonderful.. just Wonderful.. Back when there were stories and acting not what they call "movies" or "acting" today.. movies like this will stay with you for the rest of your life.
NO WAY! I'm actually STOKED you reacted to this movie. I used to watch this with my mom every Easter when I lived at home. Glad to see people havent forgotten about this movie!
"What god do the Egyptians believe in?" During the time of Moses, the Egyptians believed in the following gods which became a focus for their role in Egyptian mythology (there were others as stated below): Hapi- Egyptian God of the Nile Heket- Egyptian Goddess of Fertility, Water, Renewal Geb- Egyptian God of the Earth Khepri- Egyptian God of creation, movement of the Sun, rebirth Hathor-Egyptian Goddess of Love and Protection Isis- Egyptian Goddess of Medicine and Peace Nut- Egyptian Goddess of the Sky Seth- Egyptian God of Storms and Disorder Ra- The Sun God Pharaoh- The Ultimate Power of Egypt The plagues were meant to strike at each of these particular Egyptian gods as ten is significant in Biblical numerology. Each plague gave Pharaoh a chance to reflect and change his mind but pride kept Pharaoh from releasing the Hebrews until after the tenth plague. Other gods include Amun, Amunet, Anubis, Anuket, Apep, Apis, Aten, Atum, Bastet, Bat, Bes, Horus, Heka, Horus, Khnum, Khonsu, Kuk, Maahes, Ma'at, Mafdet, Menhit, Meretseger, Meskhenet, Monthu, Min, Mnevis, Mut, Neith, Nekhbet, Nephthys, Nu, Osiris, Pakhet, Ptah, Qebui, Ra-Horakhty, Reshep, Satis, Sekhmet, Seker, Selket, Sobek, Sopdu, Seshat, Shu, Tatenen, Taweret, Tefnut, Thoth, Wadjet, Wadj-wer, Wepwawet, and Wosret.
Pharaohs weren't so much the 'ultimate power' but rather the living embodiment of the divine. At various times they'd be connected with Horus or Ra. Set, among his other roles, was also seen as the God of Foreigners, sort of a deity who'd take foreigners under his charge when in Egypt. The Egyptians used a lot of mercenaries in their armies, so it helped to have a local deity they could be encouraged to worship. Set's fairly complex as well: reviled as the murderer of Osiris, he's also the god who protects the chariot of the sun when it passes through the underworld and comes under attack by Apophis (Apep) the great serpent (which was never viewed as a god, but more as a destructive monster, hence why when the Greeks conquered Egypt and merged their pantheons Apophis would be equated to Typhon).
Egypt, like the rest of the world at the time, was Polytheistic. They had multiple gods to represent many facets of life; gods of war, fertility, rivers, sand, the sun. The Hebrew's god was not really a threat so much as a colorful toy, they were not slaves because of the monotheism, they were slaves because most societies up until recently had slavery in one form or another. The 19th dynasty advanced into to the Levant, so the people there, including these 'Hebrews', fell under their yoke and all the chaff became potentially free servants to the Egyptian Empire.
Don't forget Akhenaten, the pharoah who tried to make Egypt monotheist. He got kicked out of Egypt, replaced by his son King Tut. Many researchers, including Sigmund Freud, believed Akhenaten and the Moses in the Bible were one and the same.
For his final directorial effort, the Paramount mountain becomes Sinai. Old C.B., the best-known director in his own right besides Hitchcock, was "Mister Paramount", from the early days of motion pictures.
He always managed to elevate any film because of his presence. I mean, he's got a Boss role in TRUE LIES, which is wonderfully minimal but his 2-3 scenes are all the more powerful because of him. SOYLENT GREEN - he's a star in that film and while that film isn't hailed as some epic, he once again elevates every one of his scenes. Even riding atop a garbage truck! And the thing is - I really don't like the man.
@@ollietsb1704, I enjoyed KING OF KINGS as well. Really fleshed out a lot of the characters and story lines. Though, in probably unintentional irony, Jesus is among the least interesting characters in it.
Nefretiri was the throne Princess of Egypt. Whoever Pharoah deemed worthy to be his heir, Moses or Rameses, would take Nefretiri as a wife and she'd become the next Queen of Egypt. Pharaoh loved Moses, treated him like a son and even favoured him over his own son.
THis, Ben Hur and Cleopatra, where the Holy Trinity of Peplums/Period dramas. Dreamworks did in the 90's an animated movie about Moses, called Prince of Egypt, and it is an amazing movie to watch.
The uncut film (available on DVD) has a prologue with C. B. addressing the film audience directly. In those days, he was known to audiences the way Steven Spielberg is known today.
As I kid, I was always amazed by special effects. My parents took me to Disney World, and the tour bus went through the Ten Commandments Red Sea area. I couldn't believe how dinky it was.
If you think the relationships in the movie were confusing they're nothing compared to real relationships in Egyptian dynasties. It was quite common for sons of pharaohs to marry their sisters and then even their own daughters. Rameses II, played by Yul Brynner here, married at least two of his own daughters, Bintanath, and Meritamen. The Egyptians had many gods, although for a brief time, the Pharaoh Akhenaten established a single god religion but it didn't last because the priests had too much power, which is why Moses as pharaoh probably wouldn't have been able to free the slaves.
Indeed. For as bad as the Spanish Habsburgs were the Egyptian's were right up there. King Tut died so young; a lot of it was from the genetic conditions he had from his parents being so closely related.
Around 5-6 years ago, watched Moses at the Sights & Sound theater in Branson, Mo. It was a live action show telling the story of Moses using the the entire theater. Not just on the main stage, there were stages on the left and right side and they used the isles to bring the caravans, animals and chariots to the stage. It was a great production.
Although uncredited, the narrator is the director, Cecil B. DeMille. 5:20 The woman speaking is Dame Judith Anderson, who acted in everything from Hitchcock to Star Trek. 5:36 And Bithia is played by Nina Foch - with an IMDB list that has to be seen to be believed, including this, An American in Paris, and Spartacus. 6:22 Yul Brynner, the Swiss/Russian actor who played every possible ethnicity from Egyptian to Thai to Japanese; just three years after this movie came out he would play King Solomon. 6:42 You should really see Anne Baxter in All About Eve; it’s a masterwork. 8:17 The actor playing Joshua had a thing for blondes. He was married four times, and you might recognize three of the names: Ursula Andress (the very first Bond Girl), Linda Evans, and Bo Derek. 8:42 Strangely, Edward G. Robinson (Dathan) is the most prominent Jewish actor in the cast. 10:24 Vincent Price, who had one of the most distinctive voices in film. 19:57 The actor who played Aaron, John Carradine, may well have the longest resume of any actor on this film, and that’s really saying something.
You are awesome….you brought back my faith with today’s youth. I have not seen this since I was a child in the 50s…I thank you very much. God bless you!
To clear it up; Bithia is the daughter of Rameses I who's son Seti I is the father of Rameses II who becomes Pharoah later. So technically Moses & Rameses are cousins. Well Bithia did warn Memnet if she told anyone it would be the last thing she ever said. "How did she explain how she had a three month old baby?" Most likely said that the gods answered her prayers
Earlier on Egyptians chiefly believed in Amun as the most important deity, then later on it was changed to Amun-ra. At some point there was attempted monotheism by Akhenaten, but that failed following his death and the priests returned Egypt to Amun-ra.
I'm agnostic but will gladly watch any film about Moses, the Exodus is SUCH a compelling story. The Ten Commandments was great, as was the film simply titled "Moses" (Ben Kingsley, 1996 I believe). My favorite telling is the animated film "The Prince of Egypt". A beautiful, stirring rendition of the Moses tale.
Yul Brynner was so amazing. Two other movies by him I love are "The Magnificent 7" and "The Journey", which might be hard to find but is so beautiful and sad. And they didn't really beat the people who built the pyramids. They had good food, decent housing and medical care. The areas where the workers lived was only found in the last few years.
The girl who played Joshua's girlfriend was Debra Paget who later that same year (1956) would play opposite Elvis Presley in his first movie Love Me Tender
I watch it EVERY Easter. It's such an awesome movie. Also, it is fucking HILARIOUS. The lines in this movie are sooooooo funny and over the top. The cast????? OMG!! Some of the best actors of all-time are in this film. It's rare when a remake is better than the original (1923) movie. Great reaction as always!!
The dialogue is brilliant! One of my favorite lines has always been Ramses answering the counselor who said "You hear the cry of Egypt." Ramses: "They would cry louder if they had to make the bricks."
It was the daughter of Pharaoh who found Moses in the Nile. The Prince of Egypt changed it for dramatic storytelling purposes so that Pharaoah would be his brother when he returned to Egypt instead of his uncle.
Cassie, here's an explanation of why she named him Moses. From the Bible - Exodus 2 : 10 [When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”] {Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out}
Also, for everyone here there is a crowd funded series called ‘The Chosen’. It puts a whole new meaning to the Bible, and it’s been seen by over 400m people.
Sephora was Lily Munster on The Munsters. WOW. I just looked her up. Yvonne De Carlo. Literally one of the most beautiful women during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Besides the other films mentioned here, I recommend Heston‘s “The Greatest Show on Earth” which is also a big DeMille movie (comedy/drama/mystery/romance/adventure).
You always struck me as a Christian, or at least someone with some kind of Faith. You have such a soft and gentle spirit about you. I guess that means your channel just shot up to the top of my list of favorites. I am a Christian as well. I'm not the best Christian. I don't always earnestly live for Him, but I do want to, and I obviously know the Truth; otherwise, I don't think I would call myself a Christian. I'm still working on myself. Or, I guess should say that God is still working on me. :) This movie always gets me in the feels. As I type this, I'm still trying to wipe some tears away. The Prince of Egypt also makes me cry. Both films are amazing, even though certain details are different in each. This one isn't gonna be a carbon copy of the other, as different studios like to have creative liberties when coming up with the story. The gist of it is still based off of Exodus, but there are a lot of details that the Bible leaves out. I believe it doesn't specifically clarify in Exodus as to what kind of relationship Moses had with the Pharaoh, if I remember correctly. In Prince of Egypt, Moses is Pharaoh's 'son'; in this film, he's his 'nephew'. That's one example of the creative liberties taken. Still, I think they do a pretty good job of staying true to the original story in the Bible. I can't wait for Part 2.
One might imagine the outcry if a movie critic of the day decided to title his newspaper review, *THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (but only to Christians and Muslims)!* 🤭
Apart from the productions on Pure Flix, most modern Hollywood Bible films are usually heavily distorted and full of heresies, but older works like "The Ten Commandments" are timeless and worth seeing, which is why there is no year that I don't watch the film at Easter time.
Egypt had many gods, and God sent 10 plagues and each plague represented the destruction of each one, showing that He is the Almighty and sovereign God. And Egypt has never recovered from that time till now. From a biblical perspective this movie has many inaccuracies, but it is still one of my favorites.
Wanna see an Easter movie that will move you & rattle you to your core?? Watch Mel Gibsons’s “Passion Of The Christ”. It’ll carve Easter into your memory & onto your heart forever. True masterpiece. (Note: it is the #1 R-ratted movie as far as dollars earned.)
@@CaesiusX If you've seen her reaction to a scene in Glory involving Denzel Washington then I doubt she could sit through this.....Certain earned it's (R) rating.
Yvonne De Carlo plays his wife, from the desert. So beautiful, and an old school, bodybuilder/physique type. Look up old pics of her in the net. She was way ahead of her time!!
You should know the Cecil B. DeMille had directed this movie one before in 1929. He felt that this film was the story of "The birth of freedom". He felt a responsibility to tell the story of Moses for the betterment of all mankind.
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The actress who portrayed his mother here also played his mother in BEN-HUR.
WOW 😳 never noticed that
@@ianbrewster8934 neither have I.
Yes, Martha Ellen Scott.
She was also Lilly Munster
@@matthewfryer5100 Sorry, but it was the actress Yvonne DeCarlo who played Moses' wife in this movie who later portrayed Lilly Munster on television.
It's hard to even dislike Ramses, because Yul Brynner is so damn good.
Made being bald cool. Like Bruce Willis.
I grew up watching this movie every year . I'm 55 now and actually have it on DVD. God bless everyone and Happy Easter!
Baka the Egyptian slave master that Moses murders is legendary horror actor Vincent Price in one of his few notable non-horror roles. The man was a great actor and it’s always nice to see him in a big-budget production like this. He got typecast for horror films because of his creepy voice but he was actually a very warm and funny man who loved cooking and collecting art. He even published several cookbooks during his lifetime.
But he was good at what he did.
……he had the most magnificent voice!
The word you're looking for is "overture". Theater works like operas and musicals play music before they start, while people are still taking their seats. Back in the day movies did the same.
I’ve watched this every year with my family growing up and it’s by far one of the best movies when the Passover holiday rolls around. Great watch!
I am 50 and have watched this film nearly every Easter of my entire life. Happy Easter and Blessed Passover. Thank-you, Cassie, for reacting to this and I wish you and your family a beautiful holiday.
Nice...a big Easter Movie without Jesus...
@@drhkleinert8241 It really is a fitting movie for this time, not only remembering the first Passover, but also as we recognize that Jesus came to fulfill the promise of Passover for all those who believe in Him and receive God's gift of salvation. We like to watch The Ten Commandments, but then also Ben-Hur and the Jesus film (and sometimes, The Prince of Egypt, as well as The Robe, The Passion of the Christ, or another such film).
"Life of Brian" is the one to watch every easter!!
There is no way I can watch this without picturing Mel Brooks coming down off Mt. Sainai with the 15... uhh... 10... 10 COMMANDMENTS!
Few actors can command a scene the way Chuck Heston did. This movie and Ben Hur are personal favorites of mine, both are great examples of big-budget cinema in that time period that feels like going to the theather.
I'm not a religious person ... but I LOVE the old Bible Epic films from the 50s and 60s. When I was a kid, all the network TV stations would play these films all day long on Easter ... King of Kings, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Story Ever Told, etc.
@Raylan Givens I couldn't agree more. Franco Zeffirelli's _Jesus of Nazareth_ is phenomenal! If I'm not mistaken, they made it a point to never have Jesus blink while on camera. It's a very subtle but effective thing to do in order to give him this otherworldly aspect.
*EDIT:* And like *Daniel* noted above, I am no longer really terribly religious, but I was raised on these films and still love them to this day.
Wonderful.. just Wonderful.. Back when there were stories and acting not what they call "movies" or "acting" today.. movies like this will stay with you for the rest of your life.
NO WAY! I'm actually STOKED you reacted to this movie. I used to watch this with my mom every Easter when I lived at home. Glad to see people havent forgotten about this movie!
"What god do the Egyptians believe in?"
During the time of Moses, the Egyptians believed in the following gods which became a focus for their role in Egyptian mythology (there were others as stated below):
Hapi- Egyptian God of the Nile
Heket- Egyptian Goddess of Fertility, Water, Renewal
Geb- Egyptian God of the Earth
Khepri- Egyptian God of creation, movement of the Sun, rebirth
Hathor-Egyptian Goddess of Love and Protection
Isis- Egyptian Goddess of Medicine and Peace
Nut- Egyptian Goddess of the Sky
Seth- Egyptian God of Storms and Disorder
Ra- The Sun God
Pharaoh- The Ultimate Power of Egypt
The plagues were meant to strike at each of these particular Egyptian gods as ten is significant in Biblical numerology. Each plague gave Pharaoh a chance to reflect and change his mind but pride kept Pharaoh from releasing the Hebrews until after the tenth plague. Other gods include Amun, Amunet, Anubis, Anuket, Apep, Apis, Aten, Atum, Bastet, Bat, Bes, Horus, Heka, Horus, Khnum, Khonsu, Kuk, Maahes, Ma'at, Mafdet, Menhit, Meretseger, Meskhenet, Monthu, Min, Mnevis, Mut, Neith, Nekhbet, Nephthys, Nu, Osiris, Pakhet, Ptah, Qebui, Ra-Horakhty, Reshep, Satis, Sekhmet, Seker, Selket, Sobek, Sopdu, Seshat, Shu, Tatenen, Taweret, Tefnut, Thoth, Wadjet, Wadj-wer, Wepwawet, and Wosret.
Pharaohs weren't so much the 'ultimate power' but rather the living embodiment of the divine. At various times they'd be connected with Horus or Ra. Set, among his other roles, was also seen as the God of Foreigners, sort of a deity who'd take foreigners under his charge when in Egypt. The Egyptians used a lot of mercenaries in their armies, so it helped to have a local deity they could be encouraged to worship. Set's fairly complex as well: reviled as the murderer of Osiris, he's also the god who protects the chariot of the sun when it passes through the underworld and comes under attack by Apophis (Apep) the great serpent (which was never viewed as a god, but more as a destructive monster, hence why when the Greeks conquered Egypt and merged their pantheons Apophis would be equated to Typhon).
Egypt, like the rest of the world at the time, was Polytheistic. They had multiple gods to represent many facets of life; gods of war, fertility, rivers, sand, the sun. The Hebrew's god was not really a threat so much as a colorful toy, they were not slaves because of the monotheism, they were slaves because most societies up until recently had slavery in one form or another. The 19th dynasty advanced into to the Levant, so the people there, including these 'Hebrews', fell under their yoke and all the chaff became potentially free servants to the Egyptian Empire.
Your comment reminds me of Prince of Egypt:
By the power Ra, Mut, Nut,
I always wondered which plague attacked which god, but your explanation gives me a clue.
Don't forget Akhenaten, the pharoah who tried to make Egypt monotheist. He got kicked out of Egypt, replaced by his son King Tut. Many researchers, including Sigmund Freud, believed Akhenaten and the Moses in the Bible were one and the same.
They show this movie every year on NBC during Easter
Indeed
For his final directorial effort, the Paramount mountain becomes Sinai. Old C.B., the best-known director in his own right besides Hitchcock, was "Mister Paramount", from the early days of motion pictures.
Yul Brynner had his own tv show in 1928. In 1928, WRGB, then W2XB, was started as the world's first television station in Schenectady, NY.
Charlton Heston was one of the greats that never made a bad movie.
He always managed to elevate any film because of his presence. I mean, he's got a Boss role in TRUE LIES, which is wonderfully minimal but his 2-3 scenes are all the more powerful because of him. SOYLENT GREEN - he's a star in that film and while that film isn't hailed as some epic, he once again elevates every one of his scenes. Even riding atop a garbage truck! And the thing is - I really don't like the man.
The older rancher in Tombstone that put up Doc Holiday before Holiday met and killed Johnny Ringo was Heston
"He's the worst brother ever" 😂
Cassie, Happy Easter and day of resurrection. Glad you're enjoying a true Epic. This movie never gets old.
One of the best Biblical epics, if not the best. And I'm not even religious.
I remember seeing KING OF KINGS a year or two later and it was - is - barely memorable. In the name, that's it.
@@ollietsb1704, I enjoyed KING OF KINGS as well. Really fleshed out a lot of the characters and story lines. Though, in probably unintentional irony, Jesus is among the least interesting characters in it.
Nefretiri was the throne Princess of Egypt. Whoever Pharoah deemed worthy to be his heir, Moses or Rameses, would take Nefretiri as a wife and she'd become the next Queen of Egypt. Pharaoh loved Moses, treated him like a son and even favoured him over his own son.
THis, Ben Hur and Cleopatra, where the Holy Trinity of Peplums/Period dramas.
Dreamworks did in the 90's an animated movie about Moses, called Prince of Egypt, and it is an amazing movie to watch.
The uncut film (available on DVD) has a prologue with C. B. addressing the film audience directly. In those days, he was known to audiences the way Steven Spielberg is known today.
As I kid, I was always amazed by special effects. My parents took me to Disney World, and the tour bus went through the Ten Commandments Red Sea area.
I couldn't believe how dinky it was.
My family used to watch this on every Easter. It was a staple. Still gets to me, every time.
If you think the relationships in the movie were confusing they're nothing compared to real relationships in Egyptian dynasties. It was quite common for sons of pharaohs to marry their sisters and then even their own daughters. Rameses II, played by Yul Brynner here, married at least two of his own daughters, Bintanath, and Meritamen. The Egyptians had many gods, although for a brief time, the Pharaoh Akhenaten established a single god religion but it didn't last because the priests had too much power, which is why Moses as pharaoh probably wouldn't have been able to free the slaves.
Indeed. For as bad as the Spanish Habsburgs were the Egyptian's were right up there. King Tut died so young; a lot of it was from the genetic conditions he had from his parents being so closely related.
Even though I have this on digital, there's nothing like watching this on ABC around Easter!
My late grandma loved this movie. Miss her. Wish I had been a better grandson
Yvonne De Carlo plays Zipporah. If you didn't know she's also well known for playing Lily Monster from the 60s tv show The Munsters.
Back then they did not have "Coming Attractions". The prelude was their way of letting everyone get into the theater and get seated.
Happy Easter and ty for reacting to this. This and the greatest story ever told are my 2 fav religious films.
They dont make'em like this anymore. Beautiful customs!!
I'm surprised you didn't notice that the actress playing Moses' mother was the same one that played Ben Hur's mother.
Heston played some of the biggest historical figures of all time. He played El Cid as well.
El Cid was incredible, underrated Heston film.
@@nicknickson3650 *"To whom does Callahora belong?"*
I am not religious at all, but my mother and I would watch this movie every easter. Amazing story, and the cast is top notch!
Around 5-6 years ago, watched Moses at the Sights & Sound theater in Branson, Mo. It was a live action show telling the story of Moses using the the entire theater. Not just on the main stage, there were stages on the left and right side and they used the isles to bring the caravans, animals and chariots to the stage. It was a great production.
Always loved this movie. Great choice for Easter.
It’s a true story
***great choice for Passover
Great choice for Passover.
I had a college professor in Southern California who joked about how he met Fraser Heston:
“I played golf once with the Baby Moses.”
Rip To All The Actor's Who We're In This Movie,Are No Longer With Us, We Still Miss You All
Oh we're going back in time.❤️
I was always been impressed with the costumes, sets and writing here. It's tasteful among Bible adaptions.
Although uncredited, the narrator is the director, Cecil B. DeMille.
5:20 The woman speaking is Dame Judith Anderson, who acted in everything from Hitchcock to Star Trek.
5:36 And Bithia is played by Nina Foch - with an IMDB list that has to be seen to be believed, including this, An American in Paris, and Spartacus.
6:22 Yul Brynner, the Swiss/Russian actor who played every possible ethnicity from Egyptian to Thai to Japanese; just three years after this movie came out he would play King Solomon.
6:42 You should really see Anne Baxter in All About Eve; it’s a masterwork.
8:17 The actor playing Joshua had a thing for blondes. He was married four times, and you might recognize three of the names: Ursula Andress (the very first Bond Girl), Linda Evans, and Bo Derek.
8:42 Strangely, Edward G. Robinson (Dathan) is the most prominent Jewish actor in the cast.
10:24 Vincent Price, who had one of the most distinctive voices in film.
19:57 The actor who played Aaron, John Carradine, may well have the longest resume of any actor on this film, and that’s really saying something.
Charles Heston played Moses and Ben-Hur. Also, the woman who played the mother of both Moses and Ben-Hur is the same actress Martha Scott.
You are awesome….you brought back my faith with today’s youth. I have not seen this since I was a child in the 50s…I thank you very much. God bless you!
Fun Fact: the voice of God was performed by Charlton Heston himself! So when he's talking to the Burning Bush he's literally talking to himself!
They used the same technique in Prince of Egypt. Val Kilmer voiced both Moses and God.
At my church they wouldn't let you come back until you had seen The Ten Commandments.
To clear it up; Bithia is the daughter of Rameses I who's son Seti I is the father of Rameses II who becomes Pharoah later. So technically Moses & Rameses are cousins.
Well Bithia did warn Memnet if she told anyone it would be the last thing she ever said.
"How did she explain how she had a three month old baby?" Most likely said that the gods answered her prayers
I absolutely love the Ten Commandments I love that as a kid I'm now 66 years old and I still love it .what a great story of Moses in the Bible.❤
Here's another casting note: Joshua was played by John Derek, later married to Bo Derek.
Cassie, it's not such a stupid question. The Egyptians, the Pharaohs, actually believed that they WERE Gods themselves.
Earlier on Egyptians chiefly believed in Amun as the most important deity, then later on it was changed to Amun-ra. At some point there was attempted monotheism by Akhenaten, but that failed following his death and the priests returned Egypt to Amun-ra.
I'm agnostic but will gladly watch any film about Moses, the Exodus is SUCH a compelling story. The Ten Commandments was great, as was the film simply titled "Moses" (Ben Kingsley, 1996 I believe). My favorite telling is the animated film "The Prince of Egypt". A beautiful, stirring rendition of the Moses tale.
I am christian too, happy to know that you're too ! May God protect and guide you sister ❤ brotherly greeting
Sam from Switzerland ! ☺
Even though he had a minor role in this film, I think Edward G. Robinson's performance, as Dathan, was overlooked.
LOL! They had special effects and blue-screen back then too.
Great seeing this being covered on this glorious Easter!
Yul Brynner was so amazing. Two other movies by him I love are "The Magnificent 7" and "The Journey", which might be hard to find but is so beautiful and sad. And they didn't really beat the people who built the pyramids. They had good food, decent housing and medical care. The areas where the workers lived was only found in the last few years.
The girl who played Joshua's girlfriend was Debra Paget who later that same year (1956) would play opposite Elvis Presley in his first movie Love Me Tender
I watch it EVERY Easter. It's such an awesome movie. Also, it is fucking HILARIOUS. The lines in this movie are sooooooo funny and over the top. The cast????? OMG!! Some of the best actors of all-time are in this film. It's rare when a remake is better than the original (1923) movie. Great reaction as always!!
The dialogue is brilliant! One of my favorite lines has always been Ramses answering the counselor who said "You hear the cry of Egypt."
Ramses: "They would cry louder if they had to make the bricks."
@@rickdeleon7386 IKR??!! I think mine is when Baka told Joshua, "I would have returned her to you shall we say.........more worthy." Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@warrenbfeagins Yes! That one cracks me up, along with "Your eyes had best find the deliverer, Dathan, or you will have no eyes."
@@rickdeleon7386 HILARIOUS! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 How about, "On let him rave, that men know him mad." 🤣🤣
It was the daughter of Pharaoh who found Moses in the Nile. The Prince of Egypt changed it for dramatic storytelling purposes so that Pharaoah would be his brother when he returned to Egypt instead of his uncle.
Joshua was played by John Derek, the husband of Bo Derek. Yes there was quite the age difference.
During the prelude at the beginning of the movie here would be a live orcastra doing the music
Masterpiece ever. Greatness
This is a movie me and my brother's and cousins watched a long time ago with my late aunt.
Cassie, here's an explanation of why she named him Moses.
From the Bible - Exodus 2 : 10
[When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”]
{Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out}
Used to be shown every Easter Sunday on ABC. Awhile back, they changed the airdate.
My favorite movie of all time even though I didn't grow up in that generation
another epic of the era was "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor. Amazing how many people it took to make these pictures.
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned them but Spartacus is well worth a look. My personal fave, even with the high cheese factor, is Quo Vadis.
Also, for everyone here there is a crowd funded series called ‘The Chosen’. It puts a whole new meaning to the Bible, and it’s been seen by over 400m people.
Seen this movie many times. Always a good watch.
I Watch This Movie Every Easter, It's a Tradition In My Family Also Happy Easter Everyone
Great classic move for sure see it a bunch growing up.
14,000 extras and 15,000 animals were used to make this movie. How I would love to have been an extra.
I remember watching this back in school. Didn't realize it's from the 50's. Pretty good Movie and amazing reaction!
It’s an excellent piece of fiction in cinema. A classic film.
21:30 for his age that man’s physique is amazing. Back when men didn’t go to the gym, but spent their entire lives toiling.
Sephora was Lily Munster on The Munsters. WOW. I just looked her up. Yvonne De Carlo. Literally one of the most beautiful women during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Actually it's extra perfect for Passover. Which began on Friday April 15th and ends Saturday April 23rd.
Besides the other films mentioned here, I recommend Heston‘s “The Greatest Show on Earth” which is also a big DeMille movie (comedy/drama/mystery/romance/adventure).
Also, James Stewart has a wonderfully different and fascinating role in that one!
You should do the Passion of the Christ.
The Ten Commandments around Easter is weird, but it is very common. haha
Epic. There's a reason Cecil B DeMille is referenced in film.
I've seen this movie so many times. I watched it often when I was a teenager.
The actress that plays Sephora plays Lily Munster in The Munsters
You always struck me as a Christian, or at least someone with some kind of Faith. You have such a soft and gentle spirit about you. I guess that means your channel just shot up to the top of my list of favorites. I am a Christian as well. I'm not the best Christian. I don't always earnestly live for Him, but I do want to, and I obviously know the Truth; otherwise, I don't think I would call myself a Christian. I'm still working on myself. Or, I guess should say that God is still working on me. :)
This movie always gets me in the feels. As I type this, I'm still trying to wipe some tears away. The Prince of Egypt also makes me cry. Both films are amazing, even though certain details are different in each. This one isn't gonna be a carbon copy of the other, as different studios like to have creative liberties when coming up with the story. The gist of it is still based off of Exodus, but there are a lot of details that the Bible leaves out. I believe it doesn't specifically clarify in Exodus as to what kind of relationship Moses had with the Pharaoh, if I remember correctly. In Prince of Egypt, Moses is Pharaoh's 'son'; in this film, he's his 'nephew'. That's one example of the creative liberties taken. Still, I think they do a pretty good job of staying true to the original story in the Bible. I can't wait for Part 2.
One might imagine the outcry if a movie critic of the day decided to title his newspaper review,
*THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (but only to Christians and Muslims)!* 🤭
Love this film !
Brilliant movie and brilliant casting.
'confused by this relationship...' Egyptians always married their siblings/cousins....Nefeterri was either Ramses sister or cousin....
Apart from the productions on Pure Flix, most modern Hollywood Bible films are usually heavily distorted and full of heresies, but older works like "The Ten Commandments" are timeless and worth seeing, which is why there is no year that I don't watch the film at Easter time.
Yul Brynner the guy playing Rameses would be the best BOBA FETT ever !!
Egypt had many gods, and God sent 10 plagues and each plague represented the destruction of each one, showing that He is the Almighty and sovereign God. And Egypt has never recovered from that time till now. From a biblical perspective this movie has many inaccuracies, but it is still one of my favorites.
Wanna see an Easter movie that will move you & rattle you to your core??
Watch Mel Gibsons’s “Passion Of The Christ”. It’ll carve Easter into your memory & onto your heart forever.
True masterpiece.
(Note: it is the #1 R-ratted movie as far as dollars earned.)
It is a well made film but I seriously doubt she'd be able to sit through some of it. It's a very confronting movie.
@@darrenhill2326 I agree. I don't think Cassie could handle it. 🥺
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If you've seen her reaction to a scene in Glory involving Denzel Washington then I doubt she could sit through this.....Certain earned it's (R) rating.
@@darrenhill2326 Oh yes. . .totally agree. 😬
Charlton Heston started as a western star and moved on to epics
Surprisingly, perhaps, the plot of The Prince of Egypt hews very much closer to the biblical story of Exodus. It had musical numbers, too.
Yvonne De Carlo plays his wife, from the desert. So beautiful, and an old school, bodybuilder/physique type. Look up old pics of her in the net. She was way ahead of her time!!
You should know the Cecil B. DeMille had directed this movie one before in 1929. He felt that this film was the story of "The birth of freedom". He felt a responsibility to tell the story of Moses for the betterment of all mankind.
I certainly applaud your undertaking of this Classic and hope you get well soon.
Cecil B DeMille made epic movies, most of them extra-long as well as extra-large.
There was an old joke. He killed more men than Cecile B. LaMille. Now you know where this came from.