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In person: Charlotte Barker, senior director, film preservation and restoration, Paramount Archives; and Craig Barron, executive director, Magnopus
The final film directed by blockbuster master Cecil B. DeMille is a lavish remake of his own 1923 silent epic. Charlton Heston, as Moses, leads a stellar cast, including Yul Brynner as Pharaoh Rameses II, Anne Baxter as the lustful Nefretiri, and Edward G. Robinson as the rebellious Dathan. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and John Fulton (The Invisible Man, 1933) won for its special effects, which included such classic Biblical sequences as the Burning bush, the Ten Plagues, and the parting of the Red Sea.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1956 | 219 min | USA | Color | English | Rated G | VistaVision
DIRECTED BY: Cecil B. DeMille
WRITTEN BY: Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
WITH: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson