The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection)

I always loved trying watching this movie, but it's very long and if you add TV commercials? -who can allow all that time and stay up that late? Having the DVD allows me to share one of my favorites with my children and we can watch it at our convenience - with as many breaks as needed. I catch more details each time I watch it - a truly great film to share with the family!

Great classic that everyone has probably seen but this collection has the silent film as well which I had never seen.

This is such a classic. I enjoy the movie very much and I love
charlston Heston for he is such a wonderful actor.

I love this film. But as I see older films getting re-issued with an improved mastering effort, I expected this film to look better than it does since this is its third re-issue. I've got DVD's of films older than this 1956 classic that look alot better than this DVD.

So, don't waste your money if you think the copy you have looks like it should be improved in video quality because this latest release looks no better than the 1999 first DVD release.

Repurchase this film only if you want to have the extra "special features" DVD. Most people may only watch those "special features" (documentaries, the making of..., profiles from the starring actors, etc.) maybe only once anyway so is it really worth it to buy the same movie again? Rent the "special features" DVD from Netflix or Blockbuster if you absolutely have to see them. I wish I did instead of buying it again like I did.

The 1956 version of 'The Ten Commandments' is easily one of the most popular films in Hollywood history, eclipsing even Ben-Hur. (Let the protests begin!) Charlton Heston won his only Oscar for his performance in Ben-Hur, but it is in his role as Moses where he clearly had the most defining and remarkable performance of his distinguished career. I've seen the film countless times and couldn't recommend it more enthusiastically. Interestingly, Demille's first go at this story during the silent era is a tremendous curiosity and quite a puzzling oddity. The first half of the film presents a fairly generic although competent survey of the Moses/Exodus story, but only when the film abruptly segues into a modern day morality play involving two brothers, does the actual head scratching begin. Unfortunately, this part of the film was meant to be the heart and soul of Demille's picture, but it amounts to some kind of strange ham fisted unintentional parody of such odious transparency and bludgeoning obviousness that I found myself chuckling and shrugging throughout. It's actually difficult to review this film objectively because I still appreciate Demille's attempt here to really say something, however much a failure it may have been. Fortunately, he quite thouroughly redeemed himself with the '56 remake.