"The Ten Commandments"
(1956)
(1956)
Heston first achieved movie-star status by parting the Red Sea as Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic movie "The Ten Commandments."
"This strapping, steel-eyed guy from the Midwest played the Father of the Chosen People as if he himself had been the model for Michelangelo's statue." —Ty Burr, Globe Staff
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