Review: The Ten Commandments
When the Pharoah Rameses I (Ian Keith) decrees that all first-born sons of Hebrew slaves shall be put to death, a mother spares her infant by sending him down the Nile in a basket. That child is picked up by Bithia (Nina Foch), daughter of Pharoah Rameses I, and raised as if her own, naming him Moses (played as an adult by Charlton Heston). Yul Brynner plays Rameses II, son of Pharoah Sethi (Cedric Hardwicke) and grandson of his namesake Rameses I. Rameses II is jealous of his adoptive brother Moses, who has grown to become a fine general and Prince of Egypt, a threat to Rameses II’s ambitions to assume the throne. Judith Anderson plays Bithia’s worried servant Memnet, Vincent Price is Baka the brutal ‘master builder’, Anne Baxter plays the lustful and ambitious Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson is the duplicitous Dathan, Debra Paget is young Hebrew woman Lilia, and John Derek plays stonecutter Joshua. Give me a good story well-told, and I will likely buy it for the entirety of i...