Memnet objects, but Bithiah insists on adopting the child, swearing Memnet to silence. Miriam watches from the reeds while the Egyptian princess Bithiah (Nina Foch], a childless widow, discovers the basket on the banks of the Nile, showing her servant Memnet (Judith Anderson) the baby wrapped in blankets with a Levite design. Moses' mother Yoshebel (Martha Scott) and young sister Miriam (Babette Bain) set him adrift in a basket on the Nile to save his life. Shortly after Moses' birth, Rameses I (Ian Keith) responded to an astrological forecast indicating the birth of a Hebrew 'Deliverer' by ordering the slaying of all firstborn male Hebrews. The film focuses on the early adulthood of Moses as a beloved foster son of Pharaoh Seti I (brother of Bithiah) and general of his armies, his romance with Throne Princess Nefretiri and rivalry with the Pharaoh's own son, Prince Rameses II. The film covers the life of Moses from his birth to his prohibition from entering the land of Israel after his disobedience at the waters of Meribah. The Ten Commandments was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the epic genre. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 'Ten top Ten'-the best ten films in ten 'epics' American film genres-after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. In 1999, The Ten Commandments was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. It has since been remade again as a television miniseries broadcast in April 2006. Some of the cast and crew of the 1956 version worked on the original. The Ten Commandments is partially a remake of DeMille's 1923 silent film of the same name. He had also planned to film the life of Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the Scout movement, with David Niven this project was never realized. He was set to direct his own remake of The Buccaneer, but his final illness forced him to relinquish the directing chores for that one to his son-in-law, Anthony Quinn. This was the last film that Cecil DeMille directed. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Cedric Hardwicke as Pharaoh Seti I, Vincent Price as Baka, and John Carradine as Aaron. Co-stars include Yul Brynner as his adoptive brother, Pharaoh Ramesses II, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, John Derek as Joshua, Edward G. DeMille and stars Charlton Heston in the lead role. It was released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956. The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American |motion picture that dramatized the biblical story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. Dorothy Clarke Wilson (novel Prince of Egypt)

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