The biblical story in fact comprises only about a third of the total running time of this first 'version' of the old DeMille warhorse, which culminates in a motorboat chase rather than the parting of the Red Sea.
It plays more like a critique of exploitative American capitalism than the thinly veiled Cold War attack on Godless Communism DeMille hinted that his 'remake' was during the fifties; with God demonstrating to venal athiest Rod La Rocque the hard way "that if you break the Ten Commandments - they will break you"!
It plays more like a critique of exploitative American capitalism than the thinly veiled Cold War attack on Godless Communism DeMille hinted that his 'remake' was during the fifties; with God demonstrating to venal athiest Rod La Rocque the hard way "that if you break the Ten Commandments - they will break you"!