The Ten Commandments (1956)

Baby Moses Sent Down the River

After the Pharaoh declares all newborn Hebrew males be killed, Yochabel (Martha Scott) hides baby Moses in a basket and sends him down the Nile.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

© Paramount 2013

Released in 1956 by Paramount.

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  • primary-genre: Classics
  • primary-genre: Drama
  • secondary-genre: Dramas
  • secondary-genre: Classic Dramas
  • secondary-genre: Epics
  • secondary-genre: Classic Movies
  • mood: Emotional
  • prop: Basket
  • setting: River
  • setting: Egypt
  • theme: Sacrifice
  • actor: Babette Bain
  • actor: Martha Scott
  • director: Cecil B. DeMille
  • producer: Cecil B. DeMille
  • producer: Henry Wilcoxon
  • cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
  • composer: Elmer Bernstein
  • editor: Anne Bauchens
  • role-name: Yochabel
  • role-name: Little Miriam
  • screenwriter: Jack Gariss
  • screenwriter: A.E. Southon
  • screenwriter: Jesse Lasky Jr
  • screenwriter: Dorothy Clarke Wilson
  • screenwriter: J.H. Ingraham
  • screenwriter: Æneas MacKenzie
  • screenwriter: Fredric M. Frank
  • year: 1956
  • studio: Paramount

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