Film: The Ten Commandments (1956)
Showing: Mon Dec 21, 12.05pm, C4
Why It’s A Must-See: Cecil B. DeMille’s second crack at the Biblical behemoth is arguably the very definition of the old-school afternoon epic, with a manlier-than-thou Chartlon Heston playing Moses and Yul Brynner as his brother Pharaoh Ramesses.
It goes on for bloody ages and features more sandals, sweat and storm clouds than you could shake a thickly cascading beard at. They just don't make them like this any more. Although Mel Gibson probably wants to.
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...when Moses parts the Red Sea to allow his people through. DeMille achieved the eye-popping SFX shot using reversed footage of a flooding tank, with a close-up on a sliced cube of a jelly for that authentic wall-of-water wobble.
Next: Dick Tracy
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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