HERE IN CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, ABOVE MONTANA THE USA STATE, IT IS NEARLY SUNSET AND THE LAST DAY [A HOLY DAY] OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
IT HAS BEEN FOR ME A GREAT FEAST, AND HERE IN CALGARY JUST SUPER GOOD SUNSHINE MILD WEATHER.
IT HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE I SAT DOWN TO WATCH CECIL B. DeMILLE'S PRODUCTION OF "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" BUT I DID.
MY WHAT A SUPER PRODUCTION IT WAS. IN ITS DAY A MAJOR FIRST IN MANY WAYS. IT NOT ONLY HAD A STAR STUDDED CAST LIKE CHARLTON HESTON, YUL BRYNNER, ANNE BAXTER, EDWARD G. ROBINSON, YVONNE DE CARLO, DEBRA PAGET, AND JOHN DEREK......BUT IT ALSO WENT FOR 3 HOURS AND 40 MINUTES.
AND THEN ADD TO ALL OF THAT, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EMPLOYED TO MAKE SOME OF THE SCENES. MADE IN 1956, THERE WAS NO DIGITAL COMPUTER INCREASING OF PEOPLE. WHAT DO I MEAN? TODAY THEY CAN TAKE SAY 100 PEOPLE IN A BASEBALL STAND AND THEN THROUGH MODERN TECHNOLOGY INCREASE, OR MULTIPLY THE 100 AND FILL THE STANDS WITH THOUSANDS.....TRICK WHATEVER YOU WANT TO NAME IT.
CECIL B. DeMILLE'S LITERALLY EMPLOYED THOUSANDS TO DO THE EXODUS SCENES, WHICH WERE SHOT IN EGYPT. CECIL HAD SUCH RAPORE WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT THEY TOLD HIM HE COULD DO ANYTHING HE WANTED, SO CONFIDENT WERE THEY IN HIS INTEGRITY.
SOME OF THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE EXTREMELY GOOD FOR 1956.
THE 6 PART DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL ON HOW THE MOVIE WAS MADE WILL BLOW YOU AWAY......CECIL B. DeMILLE WANTED THIS MOVIE TO BE HIS CROWNING GLORY OF HIS 40 YEARS IN MOVIEMAKING. HE WAS 75 WHEN AFTER 5 YEARS THE MOVIE WAS COMPETED.
CERTAINLY A MOVIE THAT SHOULD BE A PART OF YOUR HOME MOVIE LIBRARY. MY DVD IS THE "SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION" - TWO DVDs WITH EXTRAS. AND OF COURSE THEY HAVE REMASTERED IT ALL, INCLUDING THE COLOR.
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