Charlton Heston, the icon of biblical story-telling, still towers over anybody who has ever TRIED to played Moses � before or since. This is my first remembrance of any kind of movie-making and the Oscar-winning visual effects and vivid pageantry are still pretty amazing, even by today's standards. I sat in absolute silence and wonderment.
The parting of the Red Sea waters, the turning of the staff to a viperous snake, the green-colored pestilence of death seeping into the homes of every first-born, the creation of the tablets, the burning bush, the booming narrative. I was only 6 at the time but I can remember the neighbors taking me to see this, snuggled up in pajamas and stuffed in the back seat. And what a life! This was the first movie I ever saw at the drive-in. DeMille depicts the life of Moses from his birth to slavery to Mt. The daddy of all contemporary religious instruction, 1956's 'The Ten Commandments' is blockbuster spiritual entertainment in every way, shape and form, as Cecil B. You can count on this perennial favorite to show up every Easter just as you can count on 'A Christmas Carol' during the yuletide season.
