in Farciot Edouart's process (rear projection) department, in what are still considered unforgettable scenes. The Lords Side (Brass) (0:15) 26. Richard Nash [57] Bernstein recorded both the diegetic music and the score at the Paramount Studios Recording Stage in sessions spread from April 1955 to August 1956. Technical Specs, [Sephora saw Moses, asleep and drew her six sisters, to see him as he slept. Victor Gottlieb It's life to us. Subsidiarity and delegation were to be exercised by different levels of leadership, together with Moses himself, in the choice of the exemplary leaders who would both teach Israel and judge minor issues among its people. 2 (0:30) Additional Cues Time: 11:01 Elmer Bernstein s Original Piano Theme Demos 33. Moses saves an elderly woman from being crushed, not knowing that she is his biological mother, Yochabel, and he reprimands the taskmaster and overseer Baka. Soon after that, God gave us the Ten Commandments, and God gave the rest of the 613 laws to Moses. Religions. Despairing at the loss of his heir, Pharaoh exiles the Hebrews, who begin the Exodus from Egypt. Thirdly, the attitude of sharing the exploits of the Lord with others so as to help them believe in the God of Israel can be seen recurring throughout the Bible. Arnold Friberg would later state that he was the one who designed Moses' costume. John Derek as Joshua. And Jethrodiadah is the shortest sister who wears a pink robe with a teal shawl covering her face. [79] Variety described the "scenes of the greatness that was Egypt, and Hebrews by the thousands under the whip of the taskmasters" as "striking", and believed that the film "hits the peak of beauty with a sequence that is unelaborate, this being the Passover supper wherein Moses is shown with his family while the shadow of death falls on Egyptian first-borns". Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening? Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God. GUITAR 1996-2023 MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) unless otherwise stated. Rosario Rizzo Especially after the Easter season and for some reason the television network ties in the Ten Commandments to Easter, which is not related to Easter at all. Six of the daughters, excluding Sephora, dance for Moses as a ritual for the choosing of the bride. Communion. Then, through the laughter, came the. articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without The way it's played. In the Philippines, the film is traditionally aired every Holy Week (yearly) since it premiered on April 1, 2015, on GMA Network, either cut for time or in full, and dubbed in Filipino. All of the animals in the movie are real. W.M. : Let them be first whose hands have drawn the water. 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For more information, please refer to [48], The parting of the Red Sea was considered the most difficult special effect ever performed up to that time. Alexander Murray Isaak Nadel Exodus Part 3 (3:10) 26. Davida Jackson Sawyer, John F. A. Enraged at the sight of decadence he deems the Hebrews unworthy, and smashes the tablets at the golden calf, which explodes, killing the wicked revelers, and causing the others to wander in the wilderness for forty years. Our goats don't know your father. Merritt Buxbaum THEREMIN [22], Columnist Louella Parsons regarded the part of Nefretiri as "the most sought-after role of the year". Could not God perform miracles in the same manner through him by way of the work that is mentioned later, of leadership, discernment, and judgment, to the extent that Moses could cope with it, and pronounce perfect judgments that would have led Israel closer to YHWH himself? ORGAN [67], The Ten Commandments was the highest-grossing film of 1956, and the second most successful film of the decade. Moses Chooses Sephora [3:23] 6. Alex Murray William Hinshaw Furthermore, this turning led to a perfect end: Jethro recognised the true God, YHWH, and gave him sacrificial worship, together with the Community of Israel, through its representatives. 1 (Wild) (0:26) 29. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Exit Music Part 1/Exit Music Part 2 (5:16) Time: 19:19 Total Score Time: 2:30:53 CD 3 The Extras Alternates And Unused Cues 06. It was built outside Cairo, and was designed by Egyptian architect El Dine. In The Bulrushes (4:01) 03. [60] In addition, the 2016 release contains all the diegetic music recorded for the film, the original 1957 Dot album (in mono), the 1960 Dot album (in stereo), and the 1966 United Artists album, as well a 12-minute recording of Bernstein auditioning his thematic ideas for DeMille on the piano. Leonard Malarsky HARP DeMille described the role of Rameses II as "a part equal in dramatic strength to that of Moses". Sethi's Death 28. N. Noelle Williams. The Pillar Of Fire (2:45) 16. Jose Barroso ", "Put a fence in front of these men and they'll climb it! Amalekite LeRoy Collins However, a time came when a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph (Exodus 1: 8). The Brick Pits (2:12) 17. Gerald Fried Voice Moses Chooses Sephora (3:23) Fllesdal, Andreas. Company Credits Milton Holland MANDOLIN Fanfare (Alternate No. [80], James Powers of The Hollywood Reporter declared the film to be "the summit of screen achievement. Defending The Well (0:52) 03. The name of the other one was Eliezer, because, "My father's G-d (El) was my Helper (Ezer), rescuing me from Pharaoh's sword." Jethro came together with Moses' wife and sons to the desert, where Moses was staying, near HaShem's mountain. Cecil B. OBOE [64] It played for 70 weeks at the Criterion Theatre in New York, grossing $2.7 million. Sephora Moses arrives in Midian and saves the seven daughters of Jethro from tribesmen. De Mille, who was good friends with LDS church president David O. McKay, asked for and received permission to record the organ from McKay. TROMBONE https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess. Bricks . Gareth Nuttycombe Six CDs, three premiering the entire original two and a half hour soundtrack for the first time ever - much of it in stereo, also for the first time ever! George Berres The Pillar Of Fire (2:45) 16. Maxine Johnson [108], Unlike many lengthy films of the day, which were usually broken up into separate airings over at least two nights, ABC elected to show The Ten Commandments in one night and has done so every year it has carried the film, with one exception; in 1997, ABC elected to split the movie in two and aired half of it in its normal Easter Sunday slot, which that year was March 30, with the second half airing on Monday, March 31 as counterprogramming to the other networks' offerings, which included CBS' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game.[109]. Raymond Klein For the film's tenth anniversary, United Artists Records released a second stereo re-recording in 1966, also conducted by Bernstein and employing different orchestral arrangements unique to this release. Sidney Sharp While working on the building of a city for Pharaoh Seti I's jubilee, Moses meets the stonecutter Joshua, who tells him of the Hebrew God. Pestilence (1:00) 18. 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Introduction (1:37) 02. The final shooting script was written by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, and Fredric M. Zelik Kaufman [45] When DeMille cast Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, she was worried about having to wear these contact lenses; she also believed that her gray eyes were her best feature. SHOFAR and Herb Alpert was in 'The Ten Commandments'? - J. Thus Says The Lord (3:45) 13. Virginia Majewski In our case, Jethro recognised and affirmed all the members of the People of God as capable of contributing to the common good of the whole People, particularly the leaders, irrespective of whether they were leaders of thousands or leaders of tens (vv.18.21). Egyptian Border/Moses Crosses Desert (5:33) CD1 Total Time: 64:49 CD 2 Part 2 01. This research received no external funding. Jethro's Daughters' Dance (1:33) 05. The Exodus set was a duplicated set from the 1923 film. There he also helped Jethro's daughters water the sheep. Jethro - Cecil B. De Mille's The Ten Commandments Wiki Isadore karon Ten Commandments, the (6cd Box Set) Memnets Murder (Revised) (2:16) 11. She notices that his love for the other woman but points out the qualities and virtues of the women of her people, and gives the following speech: Our hands are not so soft, but they can serve. [37] Debra Paget was loaned from 20th Century-Fox. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Egyptian Dance (01:55) 7. So let it be done." The last of the great Cecil B. DeMille epics, and a remake of his own 1923 silent film of the same name, this 1956 film from Paramount tells the biblical story of Moses and the Exodus. This requires the network to overrun into the 11:00p.m./10:00p.m. timeslot that belongs to the local affiliates, thus delaying their late local news and any other programming they may air in the overnight hours. Joseph Stepansky Lilias Song/Lilias Song (Harp Chord) (0:27) 17. This went beyond merely taking them out of slavery in Egypt. Allen Harshman Marie Fera Along with them three are and other three olders who seen in the celebration nearby their father Jethro. [Sephora saw Moses, asleep and drew her six sisters, to see him as he slept. Every social activity ought, by its very nature, to furnish help to the members of the social body, and never destroy and absorb them (, Jethro offered human-management advice to Moses, inviting him to introduce the principle of subsidiarity and the principle of delegation in leadership, together with the principle of management. Yes, but very few have eyes as beautiful as yours. Song For Jethros Daughters (0:35) 02. Nefretiri (2:36) 03. [an Amalekite herdsman pushed Sephora down, to the ground and Moses quickly defended Jethro's seven daughters and defeated the Amalekites, catching them off guard, combatting with them, using only his staff]. [23] DeMille was enthusiastic about Jack Palance as Dathan, but Palance's agent angered DeMille when he stole a part of the script and demanded that the part be rewritten. Memnets Murder (Alternate) (3:22) 10. Ten Commandments Jethro's Daughter: 1956 . Sephora's sharp vision detects Joshua on the slopes who is brought down by Moses. : Aida Dagort To the opposite was the case with Jethro: the wonders that the God YHWH performed and the troubles that God underwent led Jethro to believe in one God, YHWH, above all other gods. Sam Rice Joe Rizzo Overture (2:13) 12. 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[9] It is a remake of the prologue of his 1923 silent film of the same title, and features one of the largest exterior sets ever created for a motion picture. In v.28, these Midianite traders bought Joseph, son of Jacob, from his brothers and took him to Egypt to sell as a slave. [23], For the role of Memnet, Flora Robson was considered, and Bette Davis was interviewed (DeMille's casting journal also notes Marjorie Rambeau and Marie Windsor),[37] but DeMille chose Judith Anderson after screening Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. Eudice Shapiro Subsidiarity. The Ten Commandments (1956 Film) - Cast - liquisearch.com Moses meets Jethro's daughters - "The Ten Commandments - YouTube Robert Ostrowsky That old-time religion has a new look. Lisa Mitchell was born on 31 March 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA. Maurice Weiss. He finds Sephora tending her duties and begins a convseration with her. The Ten Commandments - 6 CD Box Set - Elmer Bernstein [18] Henry Noerdlinger, the film's researcher, consulted ancient historical texts such as the Midrash Rabbah, Philo's Life of Moses, and the writings of Josephus and Eusebius, in order to "fill in" the missing years of Moses' life,[18] and, as the film's last opening title card states, "the Holy Scriptures". Nefretiri learns from Memnet that Moses is the son of Hebrew slaves. Ephorah is the tall sister who has fanlike hair and wears a cerise and teal sleeveless dress with gold lemon-slice-shaped earrings with a blue necklace and gold bangles. The 1972 and 1989 re-issues included 70mm and 35mm prints that reframed the picture's aspect ratio to 2.20:1 and 2.39:1, respectively, cropping the top and bottom of the picture's original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Parashat Yithro - Akhlah please use our Flixster.com website, Norman Herzberg VIOLA [80] Anne Baxter's performance as Nefretiri was criticized by Variety as leaning "close to old-school siren histrionics",[80] but Crowther believed that it, along with Brynner's, is "unquestionably apt and complementary to a lusty and melodramatic romance". After Jethro heard about what God had done with Moses and all Israel (Exodus 18: 1), Moses recounted what God did for his people, especially in their exodus from Egypt and in their wanderings in the desert until their arrival at the Promised Land. Take Him Away (2:16) 22. Maurice Harris [72] Gone with the Wind would be re-released the following year as part of the American Civil War Centennial, and re-asserted its supremacy at the box office by reclaiming the US record. 1957. Kurt Reher Cast & Crew Read More Cecil B. Demille Director Charlton Heston Moses Yul Brynner Rameses [II] Anne Baxter Nefretiri Edward G. Robinson Dathan Yvonne De Carlo Sephora This was ethics intertwined with religion within an educational perspective. Where was the place of the People of God? Hounds And Jackals (2:42) 11. The young women were trying to water their flock, but were being tormented by the local blades, who would not let them get to the well to draw water. Moses makes his way across the desert to a well in Midian. Ray Siegel The Exodus (3:04) 08. This means that he had led the sheep beyond the vegetation zone. While herding, Moses sees the burning bush on the summit of Mount Sinai and hears the voice of God. The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. Tzipporah's sisters are minor characters in The Prince of Egypt. Out of the way, girl. DeMille has worked photographic wonders". Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Petes Dragon director Lowery Polite Society is a fun, charming martial Arts comedy with an original voice. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Jethro hadn't known of his daughter's kindness to Moses, so he was quite shocked: "Is it possible for a man to be locked up for 10 years and survive without food?" His daughter replied: "Father, haven't you heard that the Gd of the Hebrews is great and awesome, and does miracles for them all the time? Individual cases may be affected by judicial hesitancy in making decisions (see v.16). "[82], The film's cast was also complimented. Moses The Builder Part 1/Fanfare/Moses The Builder Part 2 (1:52) 12. The score is written in a highly Romantic style, featuring unique musical leitmotifs for the film's characters (God, Moses, Rameses, Nefretiri, Dathan, Sephora, Lilia, Joshua, etc.) The Royal Barge (Alternate) (3:23) 12. Moses comes down with the revalation of God to deliver his people, and with white streaks in his hair. H.J. In. Defending The Well (0:52) 03. [65] Globally, it ultimately collected $90,066,230 in revenues up to 1979. [22] Rory Calhoun, Jeff Chandler, Anthony Dexter, Mel Ferrer, Stewart Granger, William Holden, and Michael Rennie were considered to play the film's leading antagonist. . The Ten Commandments (1956)/Home media | Moviepedia | Fandom William Miller Expert audio restoration work done by Chris Malone. Biblical Alternatives to Monotheism. Thus, the account is one of situations of tension and new circumstances between the individuals who made up the People of Israel, situations of tension in the People because they could not resolve issues between themselves, which forced them to appeal to Moses. Jesse Lasky Jr., a co-writer on The Ten Commandments, described how DeMille would customarily spread out prints of paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema to inform his set designers on the look he wanted to achieve. Furthermore, in v.36, the Midianite traders sell Joseph to Potiphar, captain of the guard of the Egyptian Pharaoh. [52] DeMille used these scenes to break up the montage, framing his subjects like a Renaissance master. Robert Konrad The Hard Bondage (2:12) 06. What's New; Birthdays; Obits; Noelle Williams. Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein.The Ten Commandments Original motion picture soundtrack recorded on April 5, 23, 26, May 7, 8, 26, 31, June 2, 9, 22, 30, July 5, 6, 9, 30, November 9, 14 and 17 1955, and January 17, February 14, 15-17, 20, 21, March 5-7, 22, 27, 29, April 9, 11, 13, 16, 19, may 8, 24, june 18, 21, 22, 27, July 2, 9, 10, 13 and August 21 1956, at Paramount Studios Recording Stage, Culver City, California. Foreign Language Press Film Critics Circle Special Award to DeMille for Best Picture, "on the basis of [the film's] expression of human ideals and aspirations". Dominick Fera Joe Colvin : William Vandenburg, BASS [3], By the time of its withdrawal from distribution at the end of 1960, The Ten Commandments had overtaken Gone with the Wind at the box office in the North American territory,[70][71] and mounted a serious challenge in the global marketthe worldwide takings for Gone with the Wind were reported to stand at $59 million at the time. Harold Ayres Marvin Limonick ", "The sun never sets on his world of adventure. Screen Reader Users: [10] DeMille won the Foreign Language Press Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. Our lips are not perfumed, but they speak the truth. Jethro, the Elder priest of Midian, in north-western Arabia (. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Pharaoh Seti I. Nina Foch as Bithiah, adoptive mother of Moses, sister to Seti I. Martha Scott as Yoshebel, Hebrew mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The Ace: He's very skilled and wise at being a general, architect, diplomat, administrator, and merchant, and he's a huge hit with the ladies. The series was filmed in Egypt, Mount Sinai, and the Sinai Peninsula. The Ten Commandments (1956) - Turner Classic Movies Intro To Royal Barge/The Royal Barge (3:18) 19. William Miller Edwin Geber FRENCH HORN Dance of Jethro's Daughters - YouTube Sephora quotes in astonishment, "Moses, your hair your sandles.". Robert S. Helfer In v.16, the biblical author shows that Moses already had an inkling as to the right way to share his leadership responsibility: teaching the People Gods ways, his commandments and decisions, thus educating the People entrusted into his hands in the faith and in ethical behaviour. Paul Tanner In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten Top Ten"the best ten films in ten American film genresafter polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Find support for a specific problem in the support section of our website. In the film The Ten Commandments, Nefertari loves Moses but she is forced to marry Rameses II.