The Ten Commandments (Paramount Pictures) (1966)

RTE Che Ge mandments om TECHNICOLOR 1. Hearing the prophecy that a Hebrew Deliverer has been born to lead the slaves out of bondage, Pharaoh Rameses I decrees that all first-born sons of the Hebrews are to be slain. To save her son’s life; Yochabel (Martha Scott) reed basket and floats it down the Nile. 2. Their prayers are answered when Bithia (Nina Foch), childless Egyptian princess, finds the infant, gives him the name Moses, and determines to raise him to glory as her own son. Memnet (Judith Anderson), her servant, keeps the Hebrew shawl in which the baby was wrapped, although she is sworn to 3. Moses grows to manhood in the court of Sethi I (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) and wins his favor. Sethi’s son, Rameses (Yul Brynner) fears Moses will be chosen to succeed his father as Pharaoh when the old man dies, in which case he will win for his queen, beautiful Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), who is the Throne Princess. Moses has just return 4. To prove that Moses is the stronger of the two men, Sethi commands him to build a treasure city with the Hebrew slaves while Rameses is given the more difficult assignment_of finding the Hebrew Deliverer whom the slaves still talk about. Under Egyptian lash the slaves labor to build the city, Per-Rameses. They know their first kind treatment under Moses, who orders a day of rest for them and a ration of grain from the Pharaoh’s own bulging storehouses. Rameses is convinced that Moses is 5. Sethi arrives in Goshen to see for himself if, as Rameses reported, Moses’ kindness to the slaves is the forerunner of treason. He and Rameses find Moses with Master Builder Baka (Vincent Price) finishing the city erected to his glory. Moses explains his generosity to the Hebrews: “A city is built of bricks .. . the starving make few, the dead make none.” In his gratitude Sethi announces that 6. Nefretiri, happily preparing to marry Moses, is told the secret of his lowly birth by Memnet who, for proof, produces the Hebrew shaw] in which the infant Moses had been wrapped. To keep his secret safe, Nefretiri murders Memnet. Moses, querying Memnet’s death and stumbling on the telltale shawl, forces from her the truth that he is the son of Yochabel. Despite her pleas, he goes to find his Hebrew mother. d 1 eke 4 2 A be : * <3 11. Rameses tells Moses to take his people iu places the baby (Fraser Heston) in a She and her daughter pray for him. > , his cattle, his God and what s Egypt he wants, and go! Moses answers: “It is not by your word or by my hand that we are free, Pharaoh. The power of God has freed us.” Under the direction of Joshua in the Avenue of Sphinxes, thousands of slaves gather for the Exodus with their carts, their few precious belongings, their herds and flocks. In a vast, dusty scene of confusion and excitement, the prayers blend into one song of freedom: “The Lord is our God; the Lord is One,” heroes, martyrs, rogues—in short, mankind— move forward under Moses’ leadership out of Egypt.. Meanwhile, in front of his falcon-headed god, Rameses prays for two days and two nights for his son’s life, 7. Moses joins his fellow Hebrews in slavery in the mud-pits of Goshen. When Joshua (John Derek) is about to be killed by Baka following a fight over Joshua’s beloved, Lilia (Debra Paget), Moses slays the Egyptian. Joshua hails him as the Deliverer. Dathan, traitorous Hebrew overseer (Edward G. Robinson), hears this and betrays Moses to Rameses. 3 poils from secrecy by the Pharaoh’s daughter. 12. But Rameses’ son dies and Nefretiri cries vengeance. With their backs to the Red Sea the Israelites watch in terror as Rameses’ chariots sweep into view. Moses stretches out his hand and the sea divides, revealing a dry corridor through which Joshua leads the people. Rameses’ men press on, pursuing the Hebrews but the divided water roars together, burying them beneath God’s wrath. Rameses knows at last that the God of Moses truly is God. ed from conquering Ethiopia. 8. Moses, exposed to a shocked Sethi and heartbroken Nefretiri, is turned over to Rameses for punishment. Rameses exiles Moses to the desert with one day’s rations. Driven on by God’s great purpose, Moses stumbles through the blinding Wilderness of Shur and the. Wilderness of Sin. He finds shelter at last with Jethro, Sheik of Midian, and his seven daughters. He travels with them to the pastures of Mount Sinai. 13. In the valley overshadowed by Mount Sinai, forty days have passed since Moses and Joshua went up into the Holy Mountain to receive God’s law. Dathan, still plotting their return to Egypt, persuades the people that Moses will not return and incites them to worship the Golden Calf, which Moses’ brother, Aaron has been forced to make. Lilia is offered as a sacrifice. plotting to use the Hebrews against the Throne. 9. In time Moses marries Sephora (Yvonne De Carlo), one of Jethro’s daughters, and lives in peace until Joshua appears to urge him to return to Egypt and free his people. Sethi has died and Rameses is now Pharaoh, with Nefretiri his queen. Moses, Joshua and Sephora see the Burning Bush. Moses hears God command him to save the Israelites. 14. Moses, his beard now wh face translucent, comes down from the Mountain carrying the Ten Commandments to his people. The frightened revelers are interrupted in their pagan worship of the Golden Calf as Moses in his anger, denounces their renunciation of the Lord. Moses shall succeed him as Pharaoh. 10. Moses returns to Egypt and commands Rameses, in the name of the Lord, to let his people go. Rameses answers: “I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.” Whereupon the plagues are visited upon Egypt. The waters of the land are turned to blood; hail and darkness fall on all Egypt. Each time Rameses is about to surrender, Nefretiri hardens his heart. Finally, in an effort to save his son’s life from the worst plague of all—the death of every first-born Egyptian throughout the stricken land—the sorely-tried Rameses admits defeat. ul KS ite, his 15. And because the Lord was angry, he made the Israelites wander in the wilderness forty years. At the River Jordan Moses takes leave of his people, bestowing upon Joshua his cloak and staff, commanding him to “Go—proclaim liberty throughout all the lands, unto all the inhabitants thereof.”