![]() Vincent Price plays Baka the sadistic, covetous, murderous whip-wielding slave-driver. Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays Sethi, the mighty Pharaoh, whose words to his son mark great significance: "Who would take a throne by force that he has earned by deeds?" Nina Foch plays Bithiah, pharaoh's sister, who discovers the basket in which Moses has just floated down the Nile. For her the hour of deliverance will never come. Debra Paget plays the delicate flower who quench the thirst of the working slaves. John Derek is Joshua, the stone cutter, who is totally convinced that Moses is God's Messenger. Sephora couldn't fill the emptiness of Moses' heart, but promised not to be jealous of the memory. Give me the water girl Lilia and I'll give you the princess your heart's desire." As a treacherous overlord, he charges to the people yelling: "Go where? To drown in the sea?" Yvonne De Carlo plays Sephora, the midnight shepherdess to whom Moses is wed. Robinson plays Dathan, the chief Hebrew overseer who confessed to Rameses: "Give me my freedom and I'll give you the scepter. She is selfish in her life as certainly in her love. For Moses, she is always ready to lie, to kill and betray. Nefretiri is beautiful as a jewel, and her eyes green as the Cedars of Lebanon. Anne Baxter is Nefretiri, the sensual princess who leaves her scar upon Moses' heart. Regarding himself as divine, he rejects the demand of this unknown God and responds by increasing the oppression of the Hebrews. Brynner delivers an intelligent cynical role. His arrogance and swaggering snobbery are well represented. Yul Brynner is superb as Rameses, the rival of Moses. ![]() As a true prince, he saves a slave's life as a great prince, he gives the priest's grain to the slaves and one day in seven to rest as a man of justice, he confronts Nefretiri with a piece of Hebrew cloth, the key to his origin as a warrior and in excellent physical condition, he kills a tough and cruel master builder as a courageous Hebrew, son of slaves, he tells the pharaoh: "It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage, but if I could free them, I would!" As a man of prowess, he shows his latest methods of combat when he takes on the shepherds and routed them as God's torch, he proves to be the Deliverer of the Hebrews, their prophet and leader as the Lawgiver of the Covenant, he is the founder of the community and as interpreter of "The Ten Commandments," he is an organizer and legislator. He was successful in a genre - the epic - that he made definitely his own, until William Wyler came along three years later with "Ben Hur." In his first epic role, Charlton Heston is cast as Lord Moses, prince of Egypt, son of the pharaoh's sister. DeMille was a motion-picture producer-director whose use of spectacle attracted vast audiences and made him a dominant figure in Hollywood. ![]()
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