The Ten Commandments (1923)

Directors

Cecil B. DeMille

Cast

Theodore Roberts, Charles De Roche, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, Richard Dix

The story

thumb|left|thumbtime=4|The Ten Commandments The film has two parts: the Prologue, the epic tale of Moses; and the Story, in a modern setting and involving living by the Ten Commandments. The prologue The opening statement explains that modern society mocked Judeo-Christian morality until it witnessed the horrors of World War I; it then beseeches the viewer to return to the Commandments, calling them "the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together. They are not laws—they are the LAW." From there, the Book of Exodus is recounted, starting just after the ninth plague.

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