Les dix commandements (1923)

The Ten Commandments

Réalisateur : Cecil B. DeMille

Scénariste : Jeanie Macpherson

Genres : Drame, Histoire

136 minutes

Status : Released

Budget : 1 800 000 $

Langue : No Language

Pays : United States of America

Société de production : Paramount Pictures

Synopsis

Dans sa première partie, le film raconte l'épisode biblique de la captivité des Hébreux en Égypte à l'époque du pharaon Ramsès II (Charles de Rochefort), leur exode vers la Terre Promise, la traversée de la Mer Rouge, Moïse (Theodore Roberts) recevant les tables des Dix Commandements. La seconde partie se situe dans les années 1920. Elle relate l'histoire des deux fils d'une femme bigote (Edythe Chapman), l'un mauvais garçon (Rod La Roque), l'autre sérieux (Richard Dix), qui convoitent tous deux la même jeune femme.

• Theodore Roberts - Moses - The Lawgiver
• Charles De Rochefort - Rameses - the Magnificent: Prologue
• Estelle Taylor - Miriam - the Sister of Moses: Prologue
• Julia Faye - The Wife of Pharaoh
• Pat Moore - The Son of Pharaoh - Prologue
• James Neill - Aaron - Brother of Moses: Prologue
• Lawson Butt - Dathan - The Discontented
• Clarence Burton - The Taskmaster - Prologue
• Noble Johnson - The Bronze Man - Prologue
• Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Martha McTavish
• Richard Dix - John McTavish
• Rod La Rocque - Dan McTavish
• Leatrice Joy - Mary Leigh
• Nita Naldi - Sally Lung - a Eurasian
• Robert Edeson - Redding - an Inspector
• Charles Ogle - The Doctor
• Agnes Ayres - The Outcast
• Genevieve Belasco - (uncredited)
• Wilson Benge - Extra (uncredited)
• Virginia Bradford - Extra (uncredited)
• Arthur Edmund Carewe - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Gino Corrado - Extra (uncredited)
• Dorothy Dale - Egyptian Girl (uncredited)
• Cecilia de Mille - Extra (uncredited)
• Attilio Degasparis - Child Extra (uncredited)
• Louise Emmons - Elderly Israelite (uncredited)
• Charles Farrell - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Viscount Glerawly - Extra (uncredited)
• Rex Ingram - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Roscoe Karns - The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
• Jack Montgomery - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Kathleen O'Shee - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Jack Padjan - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Eugene Pallette - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• John J. Richardson - Israelite Slave (uncredited)
• Mabel Richardson - Israelite Woman (uncredited)
• Robert St. Angelo - Extra (uncredited)