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| The Ten Commandments | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $9.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  332 reviews
Sales Rank: 4360
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 232 minutes
ASIN: B000J0XJC2
Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 1956
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Breathtaking July 23, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Ten Commandments is one of the greatest films of all time. The spectacle and storytelling are simply immense. I like Ben-Hur better, but this is a superb epic. Just one question: Is the AFI completely stupid? Ben-Hur should have been much higher on their list, but I can live with that. The fact that The Ten Commandments didn't even make the list blows my mind!
GREAT July 13, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must see. A movie that will get you thinking about what a real stinker we really are.Great acting, great family classic.
GREAT movie! July 4, 1999
I love this movie! Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Ann Baxter, Vincent Price, and all the actors are very successful in their roles. Cecil B. DeMille set out to make a movie that was "worthy" of the Bible, and he accomplished his goal! I appreciate the fact that DeMille went to the actual settings in Egypt and Sinai to film this movie. His prologue and the epilogue, in the Widescreen version, are an added bonus to the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this epic movie!
A spectacle of all time; so movingly meaningfull ! June 30, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cecil B. De Mille's Ten Commandments redifined the aesthetic beauty of creative spectacle in motion picture production.This is the movie I have really seen over the greatest number of time.Right from the begining one is held spellbound.The soundtrack is so wonderfully conducted that one gets really moved to watch the movie.I must confess that this splendid soundtrack continues to draw me to the Ten Commandments.With the original theartrical thriller now incorporated,one is more intrestingly led into the very spectacle of this outstanding movie of all time.The opening scene where Pharoah and his advisers discuss the military danger posed to Egypt by a feared deliverer of the Hebrew slaves at Goshen is striking and sharp.Aferwards De Mille could have done better with the killing of the firstborns scene by making more realistic.Subsequenty,the treatment of the Moses's life as a prince of Egypt is a superb explanation of cinematographic content.Even as a baby Fraser Heston must be well commended for his fitting cries.Charlton Heston himself plays out a well acted role that marks him out as the best in the sphere of all time movies.Heston's voice is so well suited to the atmospheric splendour and trials of the plot.Indeed,what really gives De Milles's Ten Commandements the numero uno spot it occupies in movie history is the uniquely crafted conversation.The movie's dialogue is so beautifully put that one can actually say that apart from the action,it is its moving and so meaningfull dialogue that makes this great drama a runaway success.From Pharaoh opening 'I number my enemies by their swords not by their chains, high priest' to Moses' 'one stupid enough to use you for a footstool will not be wise enough to rule Egypt' and so on, one finds real flavour for the movie till Heston's 'let him who is on the Lord's side come to me'.SURELY, this is a spectacle of all time!
Wow! Charlton Heston takes on the Egyptians with no guns! May 28, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
MPEG-2 compression and reproduction are superior! This movie is spectacular! Cecil B. DeMille would be proud of this version of his timeless classic... A must have! Now I'm waiting for Ben Hur and El Cid on DVD. MM
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