Drama · History
American
1956 · Directed by Cecil B. DeMille · 220 min
A Hebrew child saved from a royal decree grows up inside the Egyptian palace, trusted and favoured, with no idea who he is. Cecil B. DeMille's last film is a vast, deliberately grand Technicolor retelling of the Moses story, built as a family melodrama inside a spectacle.
Why it matters in cinema history
A culminating work of the biblical epic and of DeMille's career, it shows how 1950s Hollywood used scale, colour and religious subject matter to compete with television.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a piece of showmanship: DeMille stages scripture like grand opera, so judge its scale, colour and gesture on their own terms.
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